“Alexandra Asanova Elbakyan has strived to shatter academic publishing’s monopoly-like mechanisms in which publishers charge high prices even though authors of articles in academic journals receive no payment.”
– Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) membership advocate
Christian Romero, heralding
Alexandra Asanova Elbakyan as the recipient of the 2023 EFF Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge. Launched in 2011, Elbakyan’s
Sci-Hub platform has opened access to more than 88 million research documents.
