we-are-rogue:

tilthat:

TIL that 27-yr-old grad student, Alexandra Elbakyan, put 50 million stolen research articles online for free. Her reason?…Worldwide liberation of knowledge from the tyranny of for-profit publishers. Many academics and longtime advocates for open scholarly research seemed to support her ideology.

via reddit.com

(Y’all have the sci-hub link by now, yes? Because the Independent article somehow forgot to include it.)