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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 เม.ย. 2023
- From the Radiolab podcast: One woman's quest to make all knowledge free.
How much does knowledge cost? While that sounds like an abstract question, the answer is surprisingly specific: $3,096,988,440.00. That’s how much the business of publishing scientific and academic research is worth.
This is the story of one woman’s battle against a global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research. In 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan had just moved home to Kazakhstan after a disappointing few years trying to study neuroscience in the United States when she landed on an internet forum where a bunch of scientists were all looking for the same thing: access to academic journal articles that were behind paywalls. That’s the moment the very simple, but enormously powerful, website called Sci Hub was born.
The site holds over 88 million articles and serves up about a million downloads to people in practically every country on the globe. 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.
Content warning: this episode includes a mention of suicide.
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Thank you for this show on Sci-Hub (and Alexandra). It has been an invaluable resource to researchers worldwide.
Also, for mentioning the wonderful, Aaron Swartz. Who we wish so much were still alive but who did not give his life in vain. His story opened the eyes of many in the sciences and displayed the injustice of our system of academic journal articles.
That's a great story and a great delivery! Definitely one of the best in the recent history of Radiolab
Thank you, guys
Thank you for all the hard work you all do , honestly one of the best production, researchers , journalist, and staff . Always fun to listen to ans a pleasure to learn with
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The autism is strong with this woman. Great story.
Bruh, that is some Grade A titling. Library of Alexandra lmao
This is so cool, you guys are on the boobtube.