Sci-Hub 'pirate' named by Nature as one of the top 10 people who mattered in Science 2016
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"Prestigious international journal, Nature has picked science pirate site, Sci-Hub's founder Alexandra Elbakyan as one of its Top 10 people in science who mattered in 2016.
"Few people support the fact that she acted illegally, but many see Sci-Hub as advancing the cause of the open-access movement, which holds that papers should be made [legally] free to read and reuse," said the journal, Nature in a statement.
Sci-Hub gained publicity when academic publisher, Elsevier went to court with a complaint against the portal for illegally giving its users access to academic and scientific research papers without its approval, TorrentFreak reported."