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 <h4>Podcast Notes Key Takeaways</h4> <ul><li>Sci-Hub is a library website that provides free access to millions of research papers and books, without regard to copyright </li><li>It was created in 2011 by a single person named Alexandra Elbakyan </li><li>All of the papers made available on Sci-Hub are copyrighted and owned, so open-sourcing them is technically illegal </li><li>The four for-profit publishers that dominate the scientific journal industry are charging the scientific community to read the research that was conducted by the scientific community</li><li>At its peak, Sci-Hub hosted over 90% of every scientific article that was ever published </li><li>The publishes have sued Alexandra Elbakyan for violating copyright laws, claiming that she broke the law by distributing material that she did not have the legal right to distribute</li><li>She did not show up for the trial and became famous for not showing up to subsequent hearings and trials </li><li>“Maybe I was a little bit naive. But I thought the app [was] going to overthrow academic publishing and the corporatized system.” – Alexandra Elbakyan </li><li>She is involved in an ongoing copyright case in India, which she has chosen to participate in because she believes she has a higher chance of winning
<ul><li>As part of an agreement, new uploads to Sci-Hub have been paused until a verdict is reached (they have now been paused since 2020) </li></ul></li><li>However, the scientific journal industry is changing and shifting more toward the open-access model </li><li>By 2026, every paper that gets federal funding will be made immediately free for all to read</li><li>Sci-Hub may be losing the battle, but open access is winning the war</li></ul><a href="https://podcastnotes.org/radiolab/the-library-of-alexandra-alexandra-elbakyan-on-radiolab-with-lulu-miller-latif-nasser/">Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org</a><hr>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.Special thanks to Vrindra Bhandari, Balázs Bodó, Stephen Buranyi, Ian Graber-Stiehl, Joel Joseph, Noorain Khalifa, Aparajita Lath, Steve McLaughlin, Marcia McNutt, Randy Scheckman Tanmay Singh, Deborah Harkness, Joe Karaganis, Lawrence Lessig, Glyn Moody, and Steven Press.
Episode Credits:Reported by - Eli CohenReporting help from - Karishma MehrotraProduced by Simon Adlerwith help from - Eli CohenOriginal music and sound designed by - Simon AdlerMixing by - Jeremy BloomEdited by - Alex Neason
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