Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of Sci-Hub who has been compared to Edward Snowden and Aaron Swartz, will speak at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, May 20. We will begin the day a half hour earlier than originally planned for this special presentation by Skype. We plan to record this and many other sessions during the symposium for viewing later.
This presentation will discuss why intellectual property rights, in the form of copyright law, are contradictory to science as an enterprise, and will draw on the example of Sci-Hub.
As you may have heard, we are in the process of confirming a late-breaking remote speaker for the program for the Open Access Symposium 2016: Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of Sci-Hub who has been compared to Edward Snowden and Aaron Swartz. Once this is confirmed, we will adjust the schedule to accommodate.
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Dr. Daniel Gelaw Alemneh is head of the Digital Curation Unit at the University of North Texas Libraries and teaches at the College of Information. For the past 20 years, Daniel has been actively involved in various professional activities including membership on ASIS&T and ICKM Board of Directors. He was a Fulbright Scholar, both at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia (2019-2020) and at the University of Pretoria, South Africa (2021-2022). His research interests include digital curation, knowledge management, open access and scholarly communications.
