Best quotes by Alexandra Elbakyan on Research

Checkout quotes by Alexandra Elbakyan on Research

  • I perceive Sci-Hub as a practical side of my research.
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  • For me, Sci-Hub has a value by itself, as a website where users can access knowledge. There are many websites where you can see pictures, share tweets, download music, read ebooks. And Sci-Hub is a website where you can read research articles.
    - Alexandra Elbakyan
  • Sci-Hub arose as a tool to be used in a Russian-speaking online research community.
    - Alexandra Elbakyan
  • All content should be copied without restriction. But for education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging.
    - Alexandra Elbakyan
  • When I was a student in Kazakhstan University, I did not have access to any research papers. These papers I needed for my research project. Payment of 32 dollars is just insane when you need to skim or read tens or hundreds of these papers to do research. I obtained these papers by pirating them.
    - Alexandra Elbakyan
  • 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
  • Seriously, I feel more like a revolutionary because the final goal is not only to download all the articles and books and give open access to them, but to change legislation is such a way that free distribution of research papers will not face any legal obstacles.
    - Alexandra Elbakyan