I think that whether I can be a Russian spy is being investigated by U.S. government since they learned about Sci-Hub, because that is very logical: a Russian project, that uses university accounts to access some information, of course that… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like Google Books,… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
I like their slogan 'making uncommon knowledge common' very much, but as far as I can tell Elsevier has not mastered this job well. Sci-Hub is helping them to fulfill their mission. — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share
Journal paywalls are an example of something that works in the reverse direction, making communication less open and efficient. — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have education in computer security and was a hobby hacker in teenage… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
I could obtain any paper by pirating it, so I solved many requests and people always were very grateful for my help. After that,… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of information on the Internet. That includes music, movies, documentaries, books, and research articles. Not everyone agrees that copyright law should exist in the first place. — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share
I have a lot of supporters but they are not well organized. They send me donations but for the most part, their commitment is… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
All content should be copied without restriction. But for education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging. — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
I started a crowdfunding campaign on Sci-Hub to buy additional drives, and soon had my own copy of the database collected by LibGen, around 21 million papers. — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share
When I was a student in Kazakhstan University, I did not have access to any research papers. These papers I needed for my research… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
