Alexandra Elbakyan

There is the possibility to be suddenly arrested for hacking.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I like their slogan 'making uncommon knowledge common' very much, but as far as I can tell Elsevier has not mastered this…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Journal paywalls are an example of something that works in the reverse direction, making communication less open and efficient.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have education in computer security and was a hobby hacker…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I could obtain any paper by pirating it, so I solved many requests and people always were very grateful for my help.…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I have a lot of supporters but they are not well organized. They send me donations but for the most part, their…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

All content should be copied without restriction. But for education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I started a crowdfunding campaign on Sci-Hub to buy additional drives, and soon had my own copy of the database collected by…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

There should be no obstacles to accessing knowledge.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

When I was a student in Kazakhstan University, I did not have access to any research papers. These papers I needed for…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Scientific knowledge belongs to humanity.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I perceive Sci-Hub as a practical side of my research.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

It's useful to know how to go around domain blocking.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I do know about stories where hackers that left Russia or Ukraine for Europe or the United States were unexpectedly arrested.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

When I was working on my research project, I found out that all research papers I needed for work were paywalled. I…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Sci-Hub arose as a tool to be used in a Russian-speaking online research community.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Elsevier operates by racket: if you do not send money, you will not read any papers. On my website, any person can…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

It may be well possible that phished passwords ended up being used at Sci-Hub. I did not send any phishing emails to…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Seriously, I feel more like a revolutionary because the final goal is not only to download all the articles and books and…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Sci-Hub always intended to be legal, and advocated for the copyright law to be repealed or changed, so that it will not…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I am a freelance programmer so I am flexible about my working hours and have quite a lot of free time.

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I think that whether I can be a Russian spy is being investigated by U.S. government since they learned about Sci-Hub, because…

— Alexandra Elbakyan