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It is hard to say this, but Russia is helping the world fight against Elsevier and all those money funneling institutions... (with scihub, for anyone not knowin

• vihren 7y ago
  The creator of Sci-Hub is Alexandra Elbakyan and she is from Kazakhstan. According to Wikipedia [0] she spend 1 year working for a Moscow company, but that's it. I wouldn't classify it as a Russian service. There is a nice russian service for paywalled ebooks and articles called LibGen [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
  • buboard 7y ago
    i would still use it if it was a russian service
  • steve19 7y ago
    At one point in time she banned the whole of Russia from accessing sci-hub after she felt that some Russian scientists had been insulting when they named a parasitic insect after her. Late last year Russia banned isps from accessing sci-hub. It may or may not be hosted in Russia, but I agree it is not "Russian". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/sci-hub-blocked-in-russia-following-ruling-by-moscow-court/3009838.article https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/sci-hub-blocked-in-russi...