{"id":7165,"date":"2018-04-10T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T22:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2022-03-15T22:52:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:52:56","slug":"how-to-use-sci-hub-to-get-academics-papers-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2018\/04\/how-to-use-sci-hub-to-get-academics-papers-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use Sci-hub to get academic papers for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly tell people on Twitter to use Sci-hub when they say they can&#8217;t access papers:<\/p>\n<div class=\"oceanwp-oembed-wrap clr\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes you can, use Sci hub like normal people do.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Emil O W Kirkegaard (@KirkegaardEmil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KirkegaardEmil\/status\/983828394843484160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>However, it seems that people don&#8217;t really know how to use Sci-hub. So here is a simple, visual guide.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Go to the Sci-hub website<\/h3>\n<p>The URL may change to the website because the lobbyists of Big Publish (Elsevier, SAGE etc.) constantly try to get government to censor the website as it cuts into their <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rent-seeking\">rent-seeking<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/jun\/27\/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science\">profits<\/a>. You can find the latest URLs via this handy website called <a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.now.sh\/\">Where is Sci-Hub now?<\/a> (alternatively, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sci-Hub\">via Wikipedia<\/a>). Currently, some working URLs are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sci.hubg.org\/\">https:\/\/sci.hubg.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.yncjkj.com\">https:\/\/sci-hub.yncjkj.com<\/a> (global)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.mksa.top\/\">https:\/\/sci-hub.mksa.top\/<\/a> (global)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.it.nf\/\">https:\/\/sci-hub.it.nf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.st\/\">https:\/\/sci-hub.st\/<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/.st\">S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.do\">https:\/\/sci-hub.do<\/a> (Dominican Republic)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.se\/\">https:\/\/sci-hub.se\/<\/a> (Sweden)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.shop\">https:\/\/sci-hub.shop<\/a> (global) [redirects]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scihub.bban.top\">https:\/\/scihub.bban.top<\/a> (global) [redirects]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scihub.wikicn.top\/\">https:\/\/scihub.wikicn.top\/<\/a> (global) [redirects]<\/li>\n<li><del><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.pl\/\">https:\/\/sci-hub.pl\/<\/a> (Poland)<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.tw\/\">https:\/\/sci-hub.tw<\/a> (Taiwan)<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del><a href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.si\">https:\/\/sci-hub.si<\/a> (Slovenia)<\/del><\/li>\n<li><del><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.scihub.ltd\/\">https:\/\/mg.scihub.ltd\/<\/a> (global)<\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your country blocks the website, use one of the many free general purpose proxies. I tested <a href=\"https:\/\/hide.me\/en\/proxy\">hide.me<\/a> for the purpose of writing this article and it works fine for Sci-hub using the Netherlands exit.<\/p>\n<h3>2. Go to the journal publisher&#8217;s website<\/h3>\n<p>Go to the website of whatever article it is you are trying to get. Here we pretend you want the article in my tweet above:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seeber, M., Cattaneo, M., Meoli, M., &amp; Malighetti, P. (2017). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S004873331730210X\">Self-citations as strategic response to the use of metrics for career decisions<\/a>. Research Policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The website for this is sciencedirect.com which is Elsevier&#8217;s cover name. Then, you locate either the URL for this (i.e. https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S004873331730210X) or the article&#8217;s DOI. The DOI is that unique document identifier that begins with &#8220;10.&#8221;. It is almost always shown somewhere on the site, so you can use search &#8220;10.&#8221; to find it. In rare cases, it is in the page&#8217;s source code or may not exist. If it doesn&#8217;t exist, it means you usually can&#8217;t get the article thru Sci-hub. When you have the article&#8217;s URL\/DOI, you simply paste this into the Sci-hub search box. Like this:<\/p>\n<p>URL:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/scihub-url.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7166\" src=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/scihub-url-1024x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DOI:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/scihub-doi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7167\" src=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/scihub-doi-1024x277.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then you click &#8220;open&#8221; and you should get something like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/scihub-ex.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7168\" src=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/scihub-ex-1024x488.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In some cases, this may not work. The APA journals seem to cause issues using the URL approach, so use the DOI approach. Sometimes Sci-hub returns the wrong article (&lt;1% I should guess).<\/p>\n<h3>Finding articles from APA journals<\/h3>\n<p>These journals refuse to give a DOI and they don&#8217;t work with URL either usually. Example <a href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/buy\/1999-03699-008\">this paper<\/a>. A workaround is to <a href=\"https:\/\/search.crossref.org\/?q=Gender-stereotype+accuracy+as+an+individual+difference.\">search Crossref<\/a> for the title which gives the DOI, then use the DOI to fetch the paper as usual:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2018-09-20-06-12-25.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7392 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2018-09-20-06-12-25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly tell people on Twitter to use Sci-hub when they say they can&#8217;t access papers: Yes you can, use Sci hub like normal people do. &mdash; Emil O W Kirkegaard (@KirkegaardEmil) April 10, 2018 However, it seems that people don&#8217;t really know how to use Sci-hub. So here is a simple, visual guide. 1. 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