Alexandra Elbakyan is a Kazakhstan-born, Russian-based computer programmer and scientific activist. A supporter of the open science movement and scientific communism, Elbakyan has been referred to as “Science’s Pirate Queen.” In 2011, Elbakyan founded the shadow library Sci-Hub, providing free access to millions of research articles without regard to copyright and paywalls. Today, Sci-Hub receives over 600,000 daily visitors from […]