Alexandra Elbakan's Free Searchable Online Database Breaks the Paywall of Academic Publishers

Alexandra Elbakan a 20-something year old grad student is operating a free searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal article shattering the ten billion dollar per year paywall. Nicknamed by some the Robin Hood of Science It's the story of how one researcher made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to everyone anywhere in the world Named by perhaps the most prestigious scientific journal in the world as one of the top 10 people who mattered the most in science in 2016 Alexandra started out as just a frustrated grad student in Kazakhstan Unable to access the scholarly papers she needed for her research Once she figured out how to circumvent all the paywalls She started a website now at