Downloading Through Sci-Hub.org Website
So let me tell you one cool trick using which you can download any number of papers from the IEEExplore website for free. Just follow the following steps one by one:
1. Go to ieeexplore.
2. Search your paper topic and open any paper in new tab. Then copy the arnumber which you can find in the URL of that paper page.
3. Copy the the following URL with that copied arnumber and refresh.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6924815/
4. Then you will be redirected to the download page which looks something like the following screenshots.
http://sci-hub.io/ (open link in new tab) and copy the URL
5. Just enter the Open in the box and click download in PDF
If you are not able to access sci-hub.org from your country, then try installing this Firefox and Chrome add-on Proximate (Chrome – Firefox).
So let me tell you one cool trick using which you can download any number of papers from the IEEExplore website for free. Just follow the following steps one by one:
1. Go to ieeexplore.
2. Search your paper topic and open any paper in new tab. Then copy the arnumber which you can find in the URL of that paper page.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6924815/
4. Then you will be redirected to the download page which looks something like the following screenshots.
http://sci-hub.io/ (open link in new tab) and copy the URL
If you are not able to access sci-hub.org from your country, then try installing this Firefox and Chrome add-on Proximate (Chrome – Firefox).
Mirror Websites For http://sci-hub.org
If sci-hub.org website is down, then try any of its mirror websites:
- http://sci-hub.io
- http://sci-hub.bz
- http://sci-hub.cc
- 31.184.194.81
- For Tor Browser Users : http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/
- http://libgen.org/scimag/
If you are
not able to access the mirror sites too, then try accessing those with
proxy because these sites are banned in some countries like Russia. Keep
trying by refreshing the link.
Other Alternatives
Just use the title or link text of the
paper or other references like author name, year etc. to search in these
alternative websites.
- The best alternative for Sci-hub.org is http://jxplore.com/
- http://booksc.org/ – Only for popular research papers.
- http://www.freefullpdf.com/ – This site takes some time to load.
- bookzz.org and bookfi.org
- You can also search for your papers here at Reddit Scholar https://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/
- Directory of Open Access Journals – https://doaj.org/
- Non-Profit Organization PLOS : http://journals.plos.org/plosone/ and https://www.plos.org/
Searching Google
- Most of the research papers are already available in the web for free. So try searching that paper in Google.
- If not found, try searching that paper in Google Scholar because this Google site is specially dedicated for all kinds of research papers.