How to download research papers freely ?

20 October 2015

99.99 % guarantee sci-hub will sure to find a paper & download it.

Sci-hub
- sci-hub’s URL is changing many times due to publishers legal complaints, visit their sci-hub twitter page here, to get updated URL.
- other url -https://scihub22266oqcxt.onion.link/, http://sci-hub.bz/
- Copy URL/article title or DOI, or PMID -> paste in box -> hit search button.
- If server goes down, wait for few minuts, again try or go to alternative sites.
- If you can’t access sci-hub in your country, use tor browser or install Proxmate add-on/chrome extension (Firefox/Chrome) or Zenmate (Firefox / Chrome)
- Sci-Hub restricted to few countries users e.g.Russians, in this case user proxy sites/servers or setup VPN connection ExtensionUnlimited Free VPN - betternet (firefox/ chrome) .
- alternatives to sci-hub
  - Sci-hub tor link
  - LibraryGenesis or LibraryGenesis-Scimag or Libgen.io or Libgen-Scimag or
  - Jxplore

Authors upload their articles just to made available to public & increase their discussion on that topic. Either go to author’s lab webpage or departmental webpage or author has his own site by his name. Search it on google.
Copy authors name & find his profile on below sites. Some will upload their codes, images or related data/reference files to below repository.
- Academia.edu
- Research Gate
- ORCID
- Figshare
- Google Scholar
- Behance (project repository)
- SlideShare
- SpeakerDeck
- Social Media
  - Personal site/blog
  - LinkedIn
  - facebook fan page
  - Twitter

Mendeley (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS,Android)
DataCite
RefWorks
Zootero (web,Mac,Linux,Windows)
Scientilla (Mac,Linux,Windows) (organize bibliographic metadata of scientific publications. )
Hubmed (An alternative interface to the PubMed medical literature database.)
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