Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online - The Verge
▻https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit
[Alexandra] Elbakyan’s scientific communism mirrors the Western association between democracy and information openness.
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Profits and market caps for the publishers have also swelled. #Elsevier, for example, boasts a nearly $35 billion market cap. It has reported a nearly 39 percent profit margin for its scientific publishing arm — which dwarfs, by comparison, the margins of tech titans such as Apple, Google, and Amazon.
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Many students like Elbakyan simply email studies’ authors, or tweet the article’s information with the hashtag #ICanHazPDF hoping someone will send them a copy if they’re blocked by a paywall. But these methods, like scouring Arxiv, tend to be hit-or-miss. So when Elbakyan found herself facing paywall after paywall, she began to wonder why she shouldn’t just jump them.
Corrections to The Verge article about Sci-Hub: part 1 | engineuring
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Corrections to The Verge article about Sci-Hub: part 1
Posted by: ringo-ring on: 16/02/2018
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It took quite a time to proof-read that very long The Verge article about Sci-Hub, Open Access and about me as a Sci-Hub founder. Contrary to some opinions, the piece is not at all comprehensive and is omitting many important Sci-Hub ideas. The article is a result of a long Skype interview in Russian language back in December 2017. There are quite a bunch of mistakes and misrepresentations that I feel neccessary to adress. Since the article is long, I will split the corrections in three parts.
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Corrections to The Verge article about Sci-Hub: second part, the Dynasty foundation | engineuring
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Corrections to The Verge article about Sci-Hub: second part, the Dynasty foundation
Posted by: ringo-ring on: 16/02/2018
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That is a second part of corrections to The Verge article on Sci-Hub, that will be devoted to the conflict with the Dynasty foundation.
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Corrections to The Verge article about Sci-Hub: part 3 | engineuring
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Corrections to The Verge article about Sci-Hub: part 3
Posted by: ringo-ring on: 16/02/2018
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The final set of corrections to The Verge article about Sci-Hub