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14 Websites to Download Research Paper for Free – 2022
Collecting and reading relevant research articles to one’s research areas is important for PhD
scholars. But for any research scholar, downloading a research paper is one of the most difficult
tasks. You must pay for access to high-quality research materials or subscribe to the journal or
publication. In this post, I list the top 14 websites to download free research papers, journals,
books, datasets, patents, and conference proceedings downloads.
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Download Research Paper for Free – 2022
14 best free websites to download research papers are listed below:
1. Sci-Hub
Sci-Hub is a website link with over 64.5 million academic papers and articles available for direct
download. It bypasses publisher paywalls by allowing access through educational institution
proxies. To download papers Sci-Hub stores papers in its repository, this storage is called Library
Genesis (LibGen) or library genesis proxy 2022.
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2. Z-Library
Z-Library is a clone of Library Genesis, a shadow library project that allows users to share scholarly
journal articles, academic texts, and general-interest books via file sharing (some of which are
pirated). The majority of its books come from Library Genesis; however, some are posted directly
to the site by individuals. Individuals can also donate to the website’s repository to make
literature more widely available. Z-library claims to have more than 10,139,382
Books and 84,837,646 Articles articles as of April 25, 2022.
3. Library Genesis
The Library Genesis aggregator is a community aiming at collecting and cataloging items
descriptions for the most part of scientific, scientific and technical directions, as well as file
metadata. In addition to the descriptions, the aggregator contains only links to third-party
resources hosted by users. All information posted on the website is collected from publicly
available public Internet resources and is intended solely for informational purposes.
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4. Unpaywall
Unpaywall harvests Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories, and make
it easy to find, track, and use. It integrated into thousands of library systems, search platforms,
and other information products worldwide. In fact, if you’re involved in scholarly communication,
there’s a good chance you’ve already used Unpaywall data.
Unpaywall is run by Our Research, a nonprofit dedicated to making scholarship more accessible
to everyone. Open is our passion. So, it’s only natural our source code is open, too.
5. GetTheResearch.org
GetTheResearch.org is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered search engine for search and
understand scientific articles for researchers and scientists. It was developed as a part of
the Unpaywall project. Unpaywall is a database of 23,329,737 free scholarly Open Access (OA)
articles from over 50,000 publishers and repositories, and make it easy to find, track, and use.
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6. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals.
Today, this independent index contains almost 17 500 peer-reviewed, open access
journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.
Open access journals from all countries and in all languages are accepted for indexing.
DOAJ is financially supported by many libraries, publishers and other like-minded organizations.
Supporting DOAJ demonstrates a firm commitment to open access and the infrastructure that
supports it.
7. Researcher
Researcher is a free journal finding mobile application helps you to read new journal papers every
day that are relevant to your research. It is the most popular mobile application used by more
than 3 million scientists and researchers to keep themselves updated with the latest academic
literature.
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8. Science Open
ScienceOpen is a discovery platform with interactive features for scholars to enhance their
research in the open, make an impact, and receive credit for it. It provides context building
services for publishers, to bring researchers closer to the content than ever before. This advanced
search and discovery functions, combined with post-publication peer review, recommendation,
social sharing, and collection-building features make ScienceOpen the only research platform
you’ll ever need.
9. OA.mg
OA.mg is a search engine for academic papers. Whether you are looking for a specific paper, or
for research from a field, or all of an author’s works – OA.mg is the place to find it.
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10. Internet Archive Scholar
Internet Archive Scholar (IAS) is a full-text search index that includes over 25 million research
articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans
from digitized copies of eighteenth-century journals through the latest Open Access conference
proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.
11. Citationsy Archives
Citationsy was founded in 2017 after the reference manager Cenk was using at the time, RefMe,
was shut down. It was immediately obvious that the reason people loved RefMe — a clean
interface, speed, no ads, simplicity of use — did not apply to CiteThisForMe. It turned out to be
easier than anticipated to get a rough prototype up.
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12. CORE
CORE is the world’s largest aggregator of open access research papers from repositories and
journals. It is a not-for-profit service dedicated to the open access mission. We serve the global
network of repositories and journals by increasing the discoverability and reuse of open access
content. It provides solutions for content management, discovery and scalable machine access
to research. Our services support a wide range of stakeholders, specifically researchers, the
general public, academic institutions, developers, funders and companies from a diverse range
of sectors including but not limited to innovators, AI technology companies, digital library
solutions and pharma.
13. Dimensions
Dimensions covers millions of research publications connected by more than 1.6 billion citations,
supporting grants, datasets, clinical trials, patents and policy documents. Dimensions is the most
comprehensive research grants database which links grants to millions of resulting publications,
clinical trials and patents.
Dimensions includes datasets from repositories such as Figshare, Dryad, Zenodo, Pangaea, and
many more. It hosts millions of patents with links to other citing patents as well as to publications
and supporting grants.
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14. PaperPanda
PaperPanda is a Chrome extension that uses some clever logic and the Panda’s detective skills to
find you the research paper PDFs you need. Essentially, when you activate PaperPanda it finds
the DOI of the paper from the current page, and then goes and searches for it. It starts by
querying various Open Access repositories like OpenAccessButton, OaDoi, SemanticScholar,
Core, ArXiV, and the Internet Archive. You can also set your university libraries domain in the
settings (this feature is in the works and coming soon). PaperPanda will then automatically search
for the paper through your library. You can also set a different custom domain in the settings.
Hope, this post would help you to know some of the best website to download the research
papers and journals for free.
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