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Alexandra Elbakyan at a conference at Harvard (2010). Sci-Hub was created by Alexandra Elbakyan, who was born in Kazakhstan in 1988. [22] Elbakyan earned her undergraduate degree at Kazakh National Technical University [23] studying information technology, then worked for a year for a computer security firm in Moscow, then joined a research team at the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2010 ...
Z-Library and its activities are illegal in many jurisdictions. While website seizures reduced the accessibility of the content, [16] it remains available on the dark web. [17] The legal status of the project, as well as its potential impact on the publishing industry and authors' rights, is a matter of ongoing debate. [6] [7]
Anna's Archive was founded by the Pirate Library Mirror, a team of anonymous archivists, in direct response to law enforcement efforts to close down Z-Library in 2022. [ 1][ 4][ 6][ 12][ 13] On October 3, 2023, Anna's Archive was reported to have scraped WorldCat, the world's largest book metadata database.
For her actions in creating Sci-Hub, Elbakyan has been called a hero, [42] [43] for example by Nobel laureate Randy Schekman. [44] Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz, [45] and The New York Times has compared her to Edward Snowden. [31] Edward Snowden acknowledged Sci-Hub to be one of the most important websites for academics in the ...
t. e. Library Genesis ( LibGen) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. [ 1] LibGen describes itself as a "links aggregator ...
archive.today – Is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand [2] Demonoid – Torrent [3] Internet Archive – A web archiving site; KickassTorrents (defunct) – A BitTorrent index [4] Sci-Hub – Search engine which bypasses paywalls to provide free access to scientific and academic research papers and articles [5]
A gateway to government science information and research results from over 60 databases, over 2,200 websites, and over 200 million pages. Free United States Government: Science Citation Index [67] Multidisciplinary: Part of Web of Science. 24,000+ journals across 254 subject disciplines. Subscription Clarivate Analytics: Scientific Information ...
Motivation. One of the goals of shadow libraries is to more readily disseminate academic content, especially papers from academic journals. [ 2] Academic literature has become increasingly expensive, as costs to access information created by scholars have risen dramatically in recent years, especially the cost of books. [ 4]