Alexandra Elbakyan
Kazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub · Kazakhstan · On the map · Developers · Born 1988 · age 37
Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan is a Kazakhstani computer programmer, multidisciplinary academic, and the creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers.
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Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature published before 2020, but a much lower proportion of those published since then.
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Kazakhstan
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Born 1988 · age 37