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FIVE potential alternates to Sci-Hub

Sci-Hub has been a lifesaver for researchers across the globe, especially those who cannot afford to pay huge amounts to access key articles and are not associated with institutions that could offer access. Now that Sci-hub is partially/ fully shut down in several countries or crippled from uploading recent literature, are there any close alternatives?

1. Unpaywall: https://unpaywall.org/

An open database of 47,798,238 free scholarly articles. They harvest open-access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories and make it easy to find, track, and use

2. Paper Panda: https://paperpanda.app/

This is a browser plug-in. A paywalled paper could be available through your library or university, or to download for free through an open access portal, maybe the author uploaded a PDF to a website somewhere – but how are you going to find it? Just click the tiny panda in your toolbar and the panda will run off and find the paper for you (all in the words of the creators)

3. Open Access Button: https://lnkd.in/gKRjY6fb

A browser extension that helps you to request for paywalled papers. Free, legal research articles delivered instantly or automatically requested from authors

4. Academia: https://www.academia.edu/

Academia.edu is a for-profit open repository of academic articles free to read by visitors. Uploading and downloading are restricted to registered users

5. LibGen: https://libgen.is/

This one is also a bit controversial and under court processes. They are also linked to resources from Sci-Hub. Libgen describes itself as a "links aggregator", providing a searchable database of items "collected from publicly available public Internet resources" as well as files uploaded "from users"

Where else can you access papers without huge subnoscription fees?

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