30 websites that give you free access to research papers

Open Access Powerhouses
• Sci-Hub (controversial but widely used)
• ResearchGate
• Academia.edu
• CORE
• Semantic Scholar
• PubMed Central
• arXiv
• SSRN
• JSTOR (Free Access)
• DOAJ
• OpenAIRE
• ScienceOpen

⚡ Subject-Specific Gold Mines
• ERIC (education research)
• PsyArXiv (psychology preprints)
• bioRxiv & medRxiv (life sciences)
• PhilPapers (philosophy)
• PLOS
• Nature Communications
• Hindawi Publishing
• MDPI Open Access

⚡ Hidden Gems Most Researchers Miss
• Unpaywall (browser extension that finds free versions)
• OSF Preprints
• Zenodo
• HAL Archives
• SciELO
• WorldWideScience
• Research4Life (developing countries access)
• OATD (Open Access Theses & Dissertations)
• Digital Commons Network
• Internet Archive Scholar Section

🤔 Which research databases do you rely on most for your work?

Knowledge should be accessible to everyone pursuing serious research.

Source:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kushankalpa_research-academia-openaccess-activity-7357417476311175168-wCw7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAtGGkQBsxwMBmX3lEJO8btihnfBCaHqTz4