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14 Websites to Download Research Paper for Free – 2023

By Dr. Somasundaram R January 1, 2023  49802

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 article, ilovephd lists the top 14 websites to download free research papers,
journals, books, datasets, patents, and conference proceedings downloads.

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 14 Websites to Download Research Paper for Free - 2022

Download Research Paper for Free – 2023

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 2023.

sci-hub.wf

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Visit: Working Sci-Hub Proxy Links – 2023

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,
2023.

It promises to be “the world’s largest e-book library” as well as “the world’s largest scientific papers
repository,” according to the project’s page for academic publications (at booksc.org). Z-library also
describes itself as a donation-based non-profit organization.

z-lib.org

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Visit: Z-Library – You can Download 70,000,000+ scientific articles for free

3. Library Genesis
The Library Genesis aggregator is a community aiming at collecting and cataloging item 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.

libgen.li

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Visit: libgen.li

4. Unpaywall
Unpaywall harvests Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories, and makes it
easy to find, track, and use. It is 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 OurResearch, a nonprofit dedicated to making scholarships more accessible to

everyone. Open is our passion. So it’s only natural our source code is open, too.

unpaywall.org

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Visit: unpaywall.org

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.

GetTheResearch.org

Visit: Find and Understand 25 Million Peer-Reviewed Research Papers for Free
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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.

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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.

doaj.org

Visit: doaj.org

7. Researcher
The researcher is a free journal-finding mobile application that 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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Researcher

Visit: 10 Best Apps for Graduate Students 

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. These 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.

scienceopen.com

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Visit: scienceopen.com

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.

oa.mg

Visit: oa.mg

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.

scholar.archive.org

Visit: Sci hub Alternative – Internet Archive Scholar

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. x

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citationsy.com

Visit: citationsy.com

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 x
but not limited to innovators, AI technology companies, digital library solutions, and pharma.

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core.ac.uk

Visit: core.ac.uk

13. Dimensions
Dimensions cover millions of research publications connected by more than 1.6 billion citations,
supporting grants, datasets, clinical trials, patents, and policy documents.

Dimensions are the most comprehensive research grants database that links grants to millions of
resulting publications, clinical trials, and patents. It

provides up-to-the-minute online attention data via Altmetric, showing you how often publications
and clinical trials are discussed around the world. 226m Altmetric mentions with 17m links to x
publications.

Dimensions include 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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dimensions.ai

Visit: dimensions.ai

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.

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paperpanda.app

Visit:PaperPanda

I Hope, this article would help you to know some of the best websites to download the research
papers and journals for free.

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