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Elsevier has declared a war against Sci-Hub and open science. It has been revealed that the FBI has wiretapped Alexandra Elbakyan, Sci-Hub's founder, for over 2 years. Twitter has already suspended the official sci-hub account because Indian academics were organizing on it against Elsevier.

We cannot allow Elsevier and other publishing bodies to limit access to knowledge by imposing extortionate fees for academic papers on universities and researchers.

Help us preserve Sci-Hub's 77TB of scientific articles by seeding a few of their torrents. More information can be found in the reddit thread.

Some trivia about Elsevier

  • In 2011, Elsevier supported the Research Works Act (RWA), a bill that would have made illegal the NIH Public Access Policy, along with any other similar government effort to make taxpayer-funded research openly accessible to the public.

  • Elsevier’s author copyright agreement includes language requiring authors to waive open access policies on their campuses

The firm operates on almost 40% profit margin for providing scientific articles. Source

The firm offered a $25 (£15) Amazon voucher to academics who contributed to the textbook Clinical Psychology if they would go on Amazon and Barnes & Noble (a large US books retailer) and give it five stars. Source

Is Elsevier really for science? Or just for profit?