Why do we need to discuss Sci-hub Alternatives? As we know that Sci-hub is an amazing website with millions of research articles for students and scholars. All the paper it provides is almost free.

Sci-Hub website obtains research papers & paywalled articles using those credentials which are leaked. The credentials source used by this website is unclear. However, there is an assumption that few materials were donated while others are obtained via phishing.

Author's Note Sci hub is not a legal website. Similarly, most of the alternatives are also not legal. It is recommended to use the Internet VPN to access these websites.

Sci-Hub and its founder were sued more than once for copyright infringement. They lost both the case and costs and as well as their official name of the domain. After this incident, it cycled through almost similar domain names since then.

Some people have criticism for them violating copyright policies. While many people are in full support with respect to Sci-hub because of it very helpful and for the whole world betterment. However, Were not here to throwing judgment whether its false or not. You can decide based on your perspective. we are just here to cover Sci-hub alternatives.

Science publishing is expensive ( or pretends to be). Accessing paywalled research papers by early researchers of developing countries is becoming difficult. Most of them are using Sci-hub to download free research articles. Unfortunately, being an illegal way for downloading papers, Sci-hub keeps changing its domain name. There are few Sci-hub alternatives. You can use them to access paywalled papers.

Best Sci-hub Alternatives

Booksc.org

Booksc.org claims to have 52,429,917 articles in their repository. It seems they are loading these papers from IPs used by Sci-hub. The search feature of this website is quite more friendly as compared to the Sci-hub. Even if you fail to find the desired research article, it shows you the suggestions to other similar articles. It is useful in finding the research articles of a particular niche and to download them for free.

Library Genesis is one of the oldest repositories of research articles. It claims to have the 2M files in their servers. The user interface of this website is a bit old but still works great. Its advanced search feature allows downloading research papers by filtering your search results. You can shortlist your search research by Author Name, Year, Journal etc.

They also have a directory of different science topics. You can move through this directory to find the right articles for your study and download them for free. Torrent download is also supported on Library Genesis if you wish to download the whole repository.

For developers, the code this website is also available. You can download it through their website. There is the Russian language version of this website also. This not only allows you to change the language of the website but also to search for research papers in the Russian Language.

Paperdownloader.cf

This website seems to bit new and using Sci-hub servers in the background to allows access to paid research articles for free download. The content of this website is more recent as compared to other websites.

The interface is very simple and straight-forward. You can search the article by DOI, PubMed ID or even by pasting the URL to the research article.

CyberLeninka

CyberLeninka is a Russian scientific electronic library and has many contents almost in millions. According to Wikipedia, as per Webometrics, analysis is selected among the top 5 open archives in the world. You can use it as the sci-hub alternative. The website is user friendly and can give you access to many of the research papers.

HAL archives-ouvertes

This is my favourite sci-hub alternative. The website is in french but if you are using google chrome, there there is translating English option (builtin translator). Now you can have access to millions of research articles and journals.

Open Access Button

The Open Access Button is another Sci-hub alternative. It is a browser bookmarklet and aids you in many ways. If you do not want to get paywalls, then this browser extension will be beneficial for you. It is conducted by the Right to Research Coalition and Medsin UK. It was launched on 21 October 2014 as part of open access week on.

You can also have its chrome extension, if you want to. This extension searches for free research paper availability in different databases and gives you free access. You don’t need to search in different places. However, if you don’t want its extension, then you go do your job on the official website.

Wiley Online Library

This is not the Sci-hub alternative unlike others. The database also isn’t huge but it does include the new research articles and journals. Don’t underestimate this website site because of the low content number. This is quite new in the market and it’s continuously growing in the terms of research articles and journals.

SpringerLink

SpringerLink is the best Sci-Hub alternatives as well. A lot of people globally are using this website to download research papers and scientific journals. This database is consistently increasing day by day as the team behind this amazing website is adding new research papers on a regular basis.

ScienceOpen

This is the most widely used Sci-hub alternative being used globally. The scholars can have access to the interactive discovery environment for the enhancement of their research activities. ScienceOpen also has an experienced Advisory Board & Editorial. They regulate the whole infrastructure.

CORE

CORE stands for COnnecting Repositories. Knowledge Media Institute provides this, based at The Open University, UK. CORE gives you free access to millions of research papers. They don’t charge a penny and all content is free. It also gives you filters so that you can narrow down your search for accurate results. This Sci-hub alternative provides you PDF version as well.

There are some other Sci-hub alternatives but we find these best for you. If not these, what are you doing to download research papers?

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