A Critical Conversation with Alexandra Elbakyan: Is She the Pirate Queen, Robin Hood, a Scholarly Activist, or a Butterfly Flapping Its Wings?

Autor/inn/en	Elbakyan, Alexandra; Bozkurt, Aras
Titel	A Critical Conversation with Alexandra Elbakyan: Is She the Pirate Queen, Robin Hood, a Scholarly Activist, or a Butterfly Flapping Its Wings?
Quelle	In: Asian Journal of Distance Education, 16 (2021) 1, S.111-118 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Elbakyan, Alexandra) ORCID (Bozkurt, Aras)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1347-9008
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Web Sites; Access to Information; Scientists; Information Dissemination; Publications; Research; Publishing Industry; Open Educational Resources; Distance Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Web-Design; Scientist; Wissenschaftler; Informationsverbreitung; Forschung; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht
Abstract	The conversation with Alexandra Elbakyan intends to explore the Sci-Hub phenomenon and the core motives that initiated Sci-Hub. Accordingly, Sci-Hub is an open science project that has gone viral and is driven by people who pursue knowledge. The core idea behind the Sci-Hub is very simple: people should have access to knowledge without any restrictions. Elbakyan argues that science should be ruled by the scientist, not by the corporations. It is here, in a publish or perish scholarly world, that Sci-Hub aims to give control back to scientists and empower them. Elbakyan claims that for-profit corporations are gatekeeping knowledge, whereas Sci-Hub is disseminating it for the greater good. The conversation with Elbakyan about Sci-Hub raises a critical question for us to answer: Who is the real owner of the information? (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Asian Society of Open and Distance Education. 80-4 Minou Yamamoto Machi, Kurume City, Fukuoka, 839-0826, Japan. e-mail: editor@asianjde.org; Web site: http://asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01