🚽<p>39.95€ for a 9 pages long 51 year old computer science paper (<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00288933" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Finkel on Quad Trees, 1974</a>).</p><p>WHAT A GREAT DEAL.</p><p>This is why <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Alexandra Elbakyan</a> should win a Nobel or a Saviour of Mankind medal or something.</p><p>More on that here:</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan</a>.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub</a>.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_library" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_library</a>.</li></ul><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/alexandraelbakyan" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alexandraelbakyan</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/elbakyan" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#elbakyan</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/sciencepublishing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sciencepublishing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/scihub" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scihub</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/shadowlibraries" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shadowlibraries</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://shitposter.world/tag/shadowlibrary" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shadowlibrary</a></p><p>Also on:</p><ul><li><a href="https://kaka.farm/posts/2025/05/28/alexandra-elbakyan-should-win-the-saviour-of-mankind-medal-award.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://kaka.farm/posts/2025/05/28/alexandra-elbakyan-should-win-the-saviour-of-mankind-medal-award.html</a>.</li><li><a href="https://kakafarm.codeberg.page/posts/2025/05/28/alexandra-elbakyan-should-win-the-saviour-of-mankind-medal-award.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://kakafarm.codeberg.page/posts/2025/05/28/alexandra-elbakyan-should-win-the-saviour-of-mankind-medal-award.html</a>.</li></ul>
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Hacklab Logout"En algun lloc de la Índia"... aposten pel coneixment lliure 🦉🩵 <a class="hashtag" href="https://bcn.fedi.cat/tag/scihub" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciHub</a> <br><br>Alexandra <a class="hashtag" href="https://bcn.fedi.cat/tag/elbakyan" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elbakyan</a> continua donant guerra a les sangoneres de les editorials científiques ❤️🔥
mayaRanting about libraries
petersuber<p>Update. This new preprint by Alexandra <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elbakyan</span></a> works well as the preface to her Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge, even though it came out afterwards.<br><a href="https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202409.0197/v1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">preprints.org/manuscript/20240</span><span class="invisible">9.0197/v1</span></a></p><p>"A possible solution might be to sign a new declaration on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> to knowledge in sciences and humanities, where recent technological<br>advances will be recognized and challenges discussed, such as legal status of new platforms."</p>
petersuber<p>Has anyone seen an English translation of Alexandra <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Elbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elbakyan</span></a>'s Declaration on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> to Scientific Knowledge?</p><p>Here's the Russian original. <br><a href="https://open.science.do/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">open.science.do/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Here's the blog post where I learned about it. <br><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dkochetkov_%D0%BC%D1%8B-activity-7227224413719461888-sdrz" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/posts/dkochetkov_</span><span class="invisible">%D0%BC%D1%8B-activity-7227224413719461888-sdrz</span></a></p><p>I can't find a translation already online. Google Translate chokes on it. (Why?) DeepL says it's too long to translate on a free account.</p><p>Is anyone willing to make and post an English translation?</p>
Gary Hall<p>For its creator Alexandra Elbakyan, the Sci-Hub pirate library is the most radical and successful take on open access to date. But Sci-Hub may not actually be about open access at all.</p><p>See Robot Review of Books: #8 Sci-Hub vs Open Access for more.</p><p><a href="https://www.robotreviewofbooks.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">robotreviewofbooks.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genai</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/robot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robot</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookreview</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/experimentalwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimentalwriting</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>piracy</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/scihub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scihub</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/oa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oa</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/elbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elbakyan</span></a></p>
Page Asgardius<p>El PIRATE BAY de los CIENTÍFICOS</p><p><a href="https://video.asgardius.company/videos/watch/5b12e92c-2dc4-4390-aec4-62b411b3ca72" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">video.asgardius.company/videos</span><span class="invisible">/watch/5b12e92c-2dc4-4390-aec4-62b411b3ca72</span></a></p>
Tobias Zeumer<p>The Library of Alexandra </p><p>"We travel to Kazakhstan to meet the mysterious woman behind it all and to find out what it takes to make everything we know about anything available to anyone anywhere, for free."<br> <a href="https://radiolab.org/podcast/library-alexandra" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">radiolab.org/podcast/library-a</span><span class="invisible">lexandra</span></a></p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/SciHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciHub</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/ShadowLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShadowLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/ShadowLibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShadowLibraries</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/elbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elbakyan</span></a></p><p>1/2</p>
Gary Hall<p>The Piracy Years: Internet File Sharing in a Global Context, ed. Michael High, Markus Heidingsfelder and Holger Briel has now been published. It contains ‘How To Be A Pirate: An Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan and Gary Hall by Holger Briel’, which is available open access.</p><p><a href="https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pb-assets/OA%20chapters/Briel_9781802076622_ch5_OA-1687267442.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk</span><span class="invisible">/pb-assets/OA%20chapters/Briel_9781802076622_ch5_OA-1687267442.pdf</span></a></p><p>Elbakyan of course recently won the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge:</p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/eff-award-winner-alexandra-asanova-elbakyan" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/eff-</span><span class="invisible">award-winner-alexandra-asanova-elbakyan</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>piracy</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/elbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elbakyan</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/eff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eff</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/filesharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>filesharing</span></a></p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation will award <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AlexandraElbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlexandraElbakyan</span></a>, founder of the 'pirate' <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>library</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SciHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciHub</span></a>, for her efforts to provide access to scientific knowledge. According to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/EFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EFF</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Elbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elbakyan</span></a>'s site is a vital resource for millions of students and researchers. Some medical professionals have even argued that the site helped to save lives. <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hubs-alexandra-elbakyan-receives-eff-award-for-providing-access-to-scientific-knowledge-230728/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">torrentfreak.com/sci-hubs-alex</span><span class="invisible">andra-elbakyan-receives-eff-award-for-providing-access-to-scientific-knowledge-230728/</span></a></p>
DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> : Great interview of Alexandra <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Elbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Elbakyan</span></a> mainly about <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SciHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SciHub</span></a> « The project is being hit by lawsuits, described as illegal or unlawful, and blocked. The lawsuits come from big corporations, the academic publishers : Elsevier and others. These corporations today are the owners of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>science</span></a>. They set a high price tag to access research journals. Millions of people cannot afford it and are blocked from science and from information. » <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/binaire/alexandra-elbakyan-a-great-lady-for-a-great-project/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lemonde.fr/blog/binaire/alexan</span><span class="invisible">dra-elbakyan-a-great-lady-for-a-great-project/</span></a></p>
informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:<p>Prima vennero a prendere i pirati russi... <br>La fondatrice di <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/SciHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciHub</span></a> Alexandra <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Elbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elbakyan</span></a> afferma che, a seguito di un procedimento legale, la <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> ha ottenuto l'accesso ai dati nel suo account <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a>.<br>La stessa Google l'ha informata del rilascio dei dati questa settimana, rilevando che a causa di un'ingiunzione del tribunale, la società non è stata autorizzata a informarla prima.<br><a href="https://torrentfreak.com/fbi-gains-access-to-sci-hub-founders-google-account-data-220303/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">torrentfreak.com/fbi-gains-acc</span><span class="invisible">ess-to-sci-hub-founders-google-account-data-220303/</span></a></p>
informapirata ⁂ :privacypride:<p>La fondatrice di <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/SciHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciHub</span></a>, Alexandra <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Elbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elbakyan</span></a>, ha lanciato una campagna di donazioni per garantire il funzionamento e lo sviluppo della popolare piattaforma di ricerca accademica. Per motivi di sicurezza, le donazioni possono essere effettuate solo in <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/criptovalute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criptovalute</span></a>, ma gli impegni prevedono <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> nel progetto e l'introduzione di <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a><br>Di Andy <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Maxwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maxwell</span></a> su <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/TorrentFreak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TorrentFreak</span></a><br><a href="https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-pledges-open-source-ai-alongside-crypto-donation-drive-210809/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-pledg</span><span class="invisible">es-open-source-ai-alongside-crypto-donation-drive-210809/</span></a></p>
⛳ rebel<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> suspends <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Sci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sci</span></a>-Hub account</p><p>source: <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-founder-criticises-sudden-twitter-ban-over-over-counterfeit-content-210108/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-found</span><span class="invisible">er-criticises-sudden-twitter-ban-over-over-counterfeit-content-210108/</span></a></p><p>Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub, a site that offers a free <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/gateway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gateway</span></a> to paywalled research. The site is accused of violating the counterfeit policy of the social <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> platform. However, founder Alexandra <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Elbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elbakyan</span></a> believes that this is an effort to silence the growing <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/support" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>support</span></a> amidst a high profile <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>court</span></a> case in <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a></p><p><a href="https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/12990210" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pod.geraspora.de/posts/1299021</span><span class="invisible">0</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>"What Carole <a href="https://ecodigital.social/tags/cadwalladr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cadwalladr</span></a> has done to <a href="https://ecodigital.social/tags/facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> and <a href="https://ecodigital.social/tags/bigdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigdata</span></a>, and Edward <a href="https://ecodigital.social/tags/snowden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Snowden</span></a> has done to the state security complex [& <a href="https://ecodigital.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a>], the young Kazakhstani scientist Alexandra <a href="https://ecodigital.social/tags/elbakyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elbakyan</span></a> has done to the multibillion-dollar industry that traps knowledge behind <a href="https://ecodigital.social/tags/paywalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paywalls</span></a>. <a href="https://ecodigital.social/tags/scihub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciHub</span></a>, her pirate web scraper service, has done more than any government to tackle one of the biggest rip-offs of the modern era: the <a href="https://ecodigital.social/tags/capture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capture</span></a> of publicly funded research that should belong to us all."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/scientific-publishing-rip-off-taxpayers-fund-research" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2018/sep/13/scientific-publishing-rip-off-taxpayers-fund-research</span></a></p>
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