When I was working on my research project, I found out that all research papers I needed for work were paywalled. I was a student in Kazakhstan at the time and our university was not subscribed to anything. — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
Elsevier operates by racket: if you do not send money, you will not read any papers. On my website, any person can read as many papers as they want for free, and sending donations is their free will. Why Elsevier… — 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.… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
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… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
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… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
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
