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Alexandra Elbakyan: The Robin Hood of Science

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Meet the Robin Hood of Science | Big Think
How one researcher created a pirate bay for science more powerful than even libraries at top universities.

Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that frees academic journal articles to foster knowledge and learning — in a near-completely illegal fashion.

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