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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Sci-Hub</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A-%D9%87%D8%A8" title="ساي-هب – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ساي-هب" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87-%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC" title="সাই-হাব – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সাই-হাব" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A8" title="سای-هاب – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سای-هاب" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%88-%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D" title="സൈ-ഹബ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="സൈ-ഹബ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C-%DA%BE%DB%95%D8%A8" title="سای-ھەب – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="سای-ھەب" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%8B-%E0%B8%AE%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%9A" title="ไซ-ฮับ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ไซ-ฮับ" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Sci-Hub" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" 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title="XDCC">XDCC</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Video on demand sites</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/123Movies" title="123Movies">123Movies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dailymotion" title="Dailymotion">Dailymotion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PeerTube" title="PeerTube">PeerTube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Putlocker" title="Putlocker">Putlocker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">BitTorrent sites</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1337x" title="1337x">1337x</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BTDigg" title="BTDigg">BTDigg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demonoid" title="Demonoid">Demonoid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ExtraTorrent" title="ExtraTorrent">ExtraTorrent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EZTV" title="EZTV">EZTV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IsoHunt" title="IsoHunt">isoHunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FitGirl_Repacks" title="FitGirl Repacks">FitGirl Repacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KickassTorrents" title="KickassTorrents">KickassTorrents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nyaa_Torrents" title="Nyaa Torrents">Nyaa Torrents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RARBG" title="RARBG">RARBG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutracker.org" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutracker.org">Rutracker.org</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Rockers" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamil Rockers">Tamil Rockers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay">The Pirate Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YIFY" title="YIFY">YIFY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YourBittorrent" title="YourBittorrent">YourBittorrent</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Academic/scholarly</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ICanHazPDF" title="ICanHazPDF">ICanHazPDF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library_Genesis" title="Library Genesis">Library Genesis</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sci-Hub</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Z-Library" title="Z-Library">Z-Library</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">File sharing networks</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BitTorrent" title="BitTorrent">BitTorrent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Direct_Connect_(file_sharing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Direct Connect (file sharing)">Direct Connect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EDonkey_network" title="EDonkey network">eDonkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gnutella" title="Gnutella">Gnutella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gnutella2" title="Gnutella2">Gnutella2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyphanet" title="Hyphanet">Hyphanet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I2P" title="I2P">I2P</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soulseek" title="Soulseek">Soulseek</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">P2P clients</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BitComet" title="BitComet">BitComet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DC%2B%2B" title="DC++">DC++</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EMule" title="EMule">eMule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filetopia" title="Filetopia">Filetopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%CE%9CTorrent" title="ΜTorrent">μTorrent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OnionShare" title="OnionShare">OnionShare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/QBittorrent" title="QBittorrent">qBittorrent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shareaza" title="Shareaza">Shareaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transmission_(BitTorrent_client)" title="Transmission (BitTorrent client)">Transmission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tribler" title="Tribler">Tribler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vuze" title="Vuze">Vuze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WinMX" title="WinMX">WinMX</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Streaming programs</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Butter_Project" title="Butter Project">Butter Project</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kodi_(software)" title="Kodi (software)">Kodi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popcorn_Time" title="Popcorn Time">Popcorn Time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torrents-Time" title="Torrents-Time">Torrents-Time</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Anonymous file sharing</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous_P2P" title="Anonymous P2P">Anonymous P2P</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darknet_(networking)" class="mw-redirect" title="Darknet (networking)">Darknet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friend-to-friend" title="Friend-to-friend">Friend-to-friend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Private_peer-to-peer" title="Private peer-to-peer">Private P2P</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proxy_server" title="Proxy server">Proxy server</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seedbox" title="Seedbox">Seedbox</a></li> <li><a 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sharing in Canada">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File_sharing_in_Japan" title="File sharing in Japan">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File_sharing_in_Singapore" title="File sharing in Singapore">Singapore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File_sharing_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="File sharing in the United Kingdom">UK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_file_sharing#United_States" title="Legal aspects of file sharing">USA</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Comparisons</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clients" title="Comparison of BitTorrent clients">Comparison of BitTorrent clients</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites" title="Comparison of BitTorrent sites">Comparison of BitTorrent sites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_eDonkey_software" title="Comparison of eDonkey software">Comparison of eDonkey software</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients" class="mw-redirect" title="Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients">Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_Usenet_newsreaders" title="Comparison of Usenet newsreaders">Comparison of Usenet newsreaders</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ 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href="/wiki/Template_talk:File_sharing_sidebar" title="Template talk:File sharing sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:File_sharing_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:File sharing sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sci-Hub</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Shadow_library" title="Shadow library">shadow library</a> website that provides free access to millions of <a href="/wiki/Academic_paper" class="mw-redirect" title="Academic paper">research papers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement" title="Copyright infringement">regardless of copyright</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by bypassing publishers' <a href="/wiki/Paywall" title="Paywall">paywalls</a> in various ways.<sup id="cite_ref-Segado-Boj-2022-12_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Segado-Boj-2022-12-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bohannon_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bohannon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Elbakyan2017_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Elbakyan2017-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike <a href="/wiki/Library_Genesis" title="Library Genesis">Library Genesis</a>, it does not provide access to books. Sci-Hub was founded in <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> by <a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan" title="Alexandra Elbakyan">Alexandra Elbakyan</a> in 2011, in response to the high cost of research papers behind paywalls (see <a href="/wiki/Serials_crisis" title="Serials crisis">Serials crisis</a>). The site is extensively used worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bohannon_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bohannon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2019, the site's operator(s) said that it served approximately 400,000 requests per day.<sup id="cite_ref-roskomsvoboda_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roskomsvoboda-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to its intensive use, Sci-Hub stands out among other shadow libraries because of its easy use/reliability and because of the enormous size of its collection; a 2018 study estimated that Sci-Hub provided access to most of the scholarly publications with issued <a href="/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a> numbers.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 15 July 2022, Sci-Hub reported that its collection comprised 88,343,822 files.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since December 2020, the site has paused uploads due to <a href="#India">legal troubles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sci-Hub and Elbakyan were sued twice for <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement" title="Copyright infringement">copyright infringement</a> in the United States, in 2015 and 2017, and lost both cases <a href="/wiki/Default_judgment" title="Default judgment">by default</a>, leading to loss of some of its Internet <a href="/wiki/Domain_name" title="Domain name">domain names</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Chawla_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chawla-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The site has cycled through different domain names since then.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sci-Hub has been praised by some in the <a href="/wiki/Scientific_community" title="Scientific community">scientific</a>, academic, and publishing communities<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:7_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for providing access to knowledge generated by the scientific community, which is usually funded by taxpayers (government grants) and with zero <a href="/wiki/Royalties" class="mw-redirect" title="Royalties">royalties</a> paid to the authors.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Publishers have criticized it for violating copyright,<sup id="cite_ref-Bohannon_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bohannon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reducing the revenue of publishers,<sup id="cite_ref-shadowill_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shadowill-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and potentially being linked to activities compromising universities' <a href="/wiki/Network_security" title="Network security">network security</a>, though the cybersecurity threat posed by Sci-Hub may have been exaggerated by publishers.<sup id="cite_ref-timeshighereducation.com_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timeshighereducation.com-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RussellSanchez_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RussellSanchez-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbakyan questioned the morality of the publishers' business and the legality of their methods in regards to the <a href="/wiki/Right_to_science_and_culture" title="Right to science and culture">right to science and culture</a> under <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights#Article_27" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Universal Declaration of Human Rights">Article 27</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights" title="Universal Declaration of Human Rights">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>, while maintaining that Sci-Hub should be "perfectly legal".<sup id="cite_ref-:5_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Newtonew2016_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newtonew2016-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:9_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many Sci-Hub users see Sci-Hub as a <a href="/wiki/Moral_imperative" title="Moral imperative">moral imperative</a>, and if the operation of Sci-Hub contradicts the law, it is the law that should be changed rather than banning Sci-Hub.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alexandra_Elbakyan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Alexandra_Elbakyan.jpg/170px-Alexandra_Elbakyan.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Alexandra_Elbakyan.jpg/255px-Alexandra_Elbakyan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Alexandra_Elbakyan.jpg/340px-Alexandra_Elbakyan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="5184" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan" title="Alexandra Elbakyan">Alexandra Elbakyan</a> at a conference at Harvard (2010)</figcaption></figure> <p>Sci-Hub was created by <a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan" title="Alexandra Elbakyan">Alexandra Elbakyan</a>, who was born in <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> in 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-BohannonBio_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BohannonBio-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elbakyan earned her undergraduate degree at <a href="/wiki/Satbayev_Kazakh_National_Technical_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Satbayev Kazakh National Technical University">Kazakh National Technical University</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> studying information technology, then worked for a year for a computer security firm in Moscow, then joined a research team at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Freiburg" title="University of Freiburg">University of Freiburg</a> in Germany in 2010 that was working on a <a href="/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface" title="Brain–computer interface">brain–computer interface</a>. She then became interested in <a href="/wiki/Transhumanism" title="Transhumanism">transhumanism</a> and after attending a transhumanism conference in the United States, Elbakyan spent her remaining time in the country doing a research internship at <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Institute_of_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgia Institute of Technology">Georgia Institute of Technology</a>. </p><p>She later returned to Kazakhstan, where she started research in a Kazakh university. According to Elbakyan, she experienced difficulty accessing scientific papers relevant to her research project. She began contributing to <a href="/wiki/Online_forums" class="mw-redirect" title="Online forums">online forums</a> dedicated to sharing research papers. In 2011, she developed Sci-Hub to automatically share papers.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-torrentfreak.com_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-torrentfreak.com-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The site was launched on September 5, 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2021, Sci-Hub users collaborated to preserve the website's data, anticipating that the site may go offline.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:12_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2021, the site celebrated the tenth anniversary of its launch date by uploading on that single day over 2.3 million articles to its database.<sup id="cite_ref-motherboard_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-motherboard-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:8_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sci-Hub has cycled through domain names, some of which have been blocked by <a href="/wiki/Domain_name_registry" title="Domain name registry">domain registry operators</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sci-Hub remained reachable via alternative domains such as <a href="/wiki/.io" title=".io">.io</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> then <a href="/wiki/.cc" title=".cc">.cc</a>, and <a href="/wiki/.bz" title=".bz">.bz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sci-Hub has also been accessible at times by directly entering the <a href="/wiki/IP_address" title="IP address">IP address</a>, or through a <a href="/wiki/.onion" title=".onion">.onion</a> <a href="/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tor (anonymity network)">Tor</a> Hidden Service.<sup id="cite_ref-Gardner_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gardner-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is also accessible through a <a href="/wiki/Telegram_(software)" title="Telegram (software)">Telegram</a> bot. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_status">Legal status</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Legal status"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement#Legality_of_downloading" title="Copyright infringement">Copyright infringement § Legality of downloading</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2015, <a href="/wiki/Elsevier" title="Elsevier">Elsevier</a> filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub, in <i>Elsevier et al. v. Sci-Hub et al.</i>, at the <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_New_York" title="United States District Court for the Southern District of New York">United States District Court for the Southern District of New York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Schiermeier2017_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schiermeier2017-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Library_Genesis" title="Library Genesis">Library Genesis</a> (LibGen) was also a defendant in the case,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:4_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which may be based in either the Netherlands<sup id="cite_ref-:0_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or in Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was the largest copyright infringement case that had been filed in the U.S., or in the world, at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-Greco2017_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greco2017-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elsevier alleged that Sci-Hub violated copyright law and induced others to do so, and it alleged violations of the <a href="/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act" title="Computer Fraud and Abuse Act">Computer Fraud and Abuse Act</a> as well as inducements to violate that law.<sup id="cite_ref-Greco2017_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greco2017-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elsevier asked for monetary damages and an <a href="/wiki/Injunction" title="Injunction">injunction</a> to stop the sharing of the papers.<sup id="cite_ref-Greco2017_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greco2017-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elsevier has used accusations over the alleged security threat that Sci-Hub poses to institutions to encourage educational institutions to block its use.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbakyan responded to the case in an interview by accusing Elsevier of violating the <a href="/wiki/Right_to_science_and_culture" title="Right to science and culture">right to science and culture</a> under <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights#Article_27" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Universal Declaration of Human Rights">Article 27</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights" title="Universal Declaration of Human Rights">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She later wrote a letter to the court about the case describing her reasons for creating Sci-Hub, in which she stated, "Payment of 32 dollars [for each download] is just insane when you need to skim or read tens or hundreds of these papers to do research."<sup id="cite_ref-torrentfreak.com_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-torrentfreak.com-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the time the website was hosted in <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a>, Russia, where judgments made by American courts were not enforceable,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Sci-Hub did not defend the lawsuit.<sup id="cite_ref-Schiermeier2017_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schiermeier2017-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 2017, the court awarded Elsevier <a href="/wiki/US$" class="mw-redirect" title="US$">US$</a>15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub and others in a <a href="/wiki/Default_judgment" title="Default judgment">default judgment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Schiermeier2017_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schiermeier2017-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The judgment found that Sci-Hub used accounts of students and academic institutions to access articles through Elsevier's platform <a href="/wiki/ScienceDirect" title="ScienceDirect">ScienceDirect</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_35-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The judgment also granted the injunction, which led to the loss of the original sci-hub.org domain.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-shadowill_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shadowill-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-independent_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-independent-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2017, the <a href="/wiki/American_Chemical_Society" title="American Chemical Society">American Chemical Society</a> (ACS) filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_Virginia" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia">United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia</a>, alleging copyright and trademark infringement; it sought judgment US$4.8 million from Sci-Hub in damages, and <a href="/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider">Internet service provider</a> blocking of the Sci-Hub website.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 6 November 2017, the ACS was granted a <a href="/wiki/Default_judgment" title="Default judgment">default judgment</a>, and a permanent injunction was granted against all parties in active concert or participation with Sci-Hub that has notice of the injunction, "including any Internet search engines, web hosting and Internet service providers, domain name registrars, and domain name registries", to cease facilitating access to the service.<sup id="cite_ref-Chawla_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chawla-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EFF2017_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EFF2017-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 23 November 2017, four Sci-Hub domains had been rendered inactive by the court order<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and its <a href="/wiki/CloudFlare" class="mw-redirect" title="CloudFlare">CloudFlare</a> account was terminated.<sup id="cite_ref-Scientist2018_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scientist2018-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 2018, the White House <a href="/wiki/Office_of_the_United_States_Trade_Representative" title="Office of the United States Trade Representative">Office of the U.S. Trade Representative</a> has cited Sci-Hub as one of the most flagrant "<a href="/wiki/Notorious_market" title="Notorious market">notorious market</a>" sites in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 8 January 2021, <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> suspended Sci-Hub's account citing "counterfeit content" as the reason.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sweden">Sweden</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Sweden"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 2018, Swedish <a href="/wiki/ISP" class="mw-redirect" title="ISP">ISPs</a> were forced to block access to Sci-Hub after a court case brought by Elsevier; <a href="/wiki/Bahnhof" title="Bahnhof">Bahnhof</a>, a large Swedish ISP, in return soft-blocked the Elsevier website.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 26 January 2023, the Sci-Hub <a href="/wiki/.se" title=".se">.se</a> domain name was reported to have been taken down,<sup id="cite_ref-TF-20230126_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TF-20230126-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the domain name was reinstated within a week after successful "ownership verification".<sup id="cite_ref-TW-20230201_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TW-20230201-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TF-20230107_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TF-20230107-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russia">Russia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Russia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In November 2018, Russia's <a href="/wiki/Federal_Service_for_Supervision_of_Communications,_Information_Technology_and_Mass_Media" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media">Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media</a> blocked Sci-Hub and its mirror websites after a <a href="/wiki/Moscow_City_Court" title="Moscow City Court">Moscow City Court</a> ruling to comply with Elsevier's and <a href="/wiki/Springer_Nature" title="Springer Nature">Springer Nature</a>'s complaints regarding intellectual property infringement.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The site moved to another domain and is still available online as of 22 January 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-roskomsvoboda_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roskomsvoboda-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="France">France</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 7 March 2019, following a complaint by Elsevier and Springer Nature, a French court ordered French <a href="/wiki/ISP" class="mw-redirect" title="ISP">ISPs</a> to block access to Sci-Hub and <a href="/wiki/Library_Genesis" title="Library Genesis">Library Genesis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the court order did not affect the academic network <a href="/wiki/Renater" title="Renater">Renater</a>, through which most French academic access to Sci-Hub presumably goes.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Belgium">Belgium</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Belgium"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following the lawsuit by Elsevier in March 2019 in France, Elsevier, <a href="/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media" title="Springer Science+Business Media">Springer</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Wiley_%26_Son" class="mw-redirect" title="John Wiley & Son">John Wiley</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a> filed a complaint against <a href="/wiki/Proximus" title="Proximus">Proximus</a>, <a href="/wiki/VOO" title="VOO">VOO</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Brut%C3%A9l%C3%A9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brutélé (page does not exist)">Brutélé</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Telenet_(Belgium)" class="mw-redirect" title="Telenet (Belgium)">Telenet</a> to block access to Sci-Hub and LibGen. The publishers claimed to represent more than half of the scientific publishing sector and indicated that over 90% of the contents on the sites <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement" title="Copyright infringement">infringed copyright laws</a>; they won the lawsuit.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since then, the two sites have been blocked by those <a href="/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider">ISPs</a>; visitors are redirected to a stop page by <a href="/wiki/Federal_Police_(Belgium)" title="Federal Police (Belgium)">Belgian Federal Police</a> instead, citing illegality of the site's content under Belgian legislation. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a> included Sci-Hub in its "Piracy Watch List".<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="India">India</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: India"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In December 2020, Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis in the <a href="/wiki/Delhi_High_Court" title="Delhi High Court">Delhi High Court</a>. The plaintiffs seek a dynamic injunction which means that any future domain name, IP address, or name-change by the respondents will not require the plaintiffs to return to court for an additional injunction.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:10_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The court restricted the sites from uploading, publishing, or making any article available until 6 January 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-:13_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In response to the lawsuit, as well as to Elbakyan's claim that the FBI had requested data from her Apple account, Reddit users on the subreddit <i>r/DataHoarder</i> organized to download and <a href="/wiki/Seeding_(computing)" title="Seeding (computing)">seed</a> backups of the articles on Sci-Hub, with the intention of creating a decentralized and uncensorable version of the site.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In order to have a better chance of winning a lawsuit presented against her and Sci-Hub by <a href="/wiki/Elsevier" title="Elsevier">Elsevier</a> in India, Elbakyan complied with a preliminary <a href="/wiki/Injunction" title="Injunction">injunction</a> issued by an Indian court, and suspended in 2021 upload of new publications, except for some batch releases of content.<sup id="cite_ref-:13_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In India, Sci-hub is being represented by Advocate Nilesh Jain.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was interviewed by Hannes Grassegger for the German newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/S%C3%BCddeutsche_Zeitung" title="Süddeutsche Zeitung">Süddeutsche Zeitung</a></i> along with Alexandra Elbakyan.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The High Court agreed on 6 January 2021 to wait before passing any interim order in the case until they hear representations from scientists, researchers, and students.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A hearing was scheduled for 16 December 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_62-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A key component of Sci-Hub's legal defence is that it provides educational resources to researchers and thus falls under a <a href="/wiki/Fair_dealing" title="Fair dealing">fair dealing</a> exception in India's copyright law. This defence has previously been used by educational institutions to justify the reproduction of copyrighted materials for use by low-income students.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_62-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of Indian academics offered support to Sci-Hub after the lawsuit was filed.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Multiple petitions were filed by scholars in India supporting Sci-Hub in the lawsuit.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_62-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another line of defence pursued by Elbakyan and her supporters was that journal publishers did not pay to the authors for copyright transfer, as Indian copyright law requires, and therefore the publishers did not own the copyrights on these articles.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the Indian court rejected these arguments in November of 2022 and scheduled full hearing for July 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In response, Sci-Hub legal representatives announced that they will pursue other, perhaps more promising, legal strategies.<sup id="cite_ref-TF-20230107_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TF-20230107-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 2021, Elsevier and Springer Nature obtained an injunction on <a href="/wiki/TalkTalk_Group" title="TalkTalk Group">TalkTalk</a> to block the sci-hub.se domain as a result of a ruling handed down by a UK court.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2021, <a href="/wiki/Police_Intellectual_Property_Crime_Unit" title="Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit">City of London police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit</a> issued a warning to students and universities against accessing the website and to have the website blocked by universities with allegations that the website could steal credentials, mainly to download content from publishers and cause users to "inadvertently download potentially dangerous content" when visited.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the allegation was denied by Elbakyan.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Website">Website</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Website"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The site's operation is financed by user donations.<sup id="cite_ref-Bohannon_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bohannon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The PHP code, setup of the Linux web servers, and maintenance are all done by Elbakyan herself to avoid risk of moles or a broken team compromising the service.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the years, various URL addresses and direct IP addresses have been used for Sci-Hub, as dozens of domain names have been confiscated by various legal authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Article_sourcing">Article sourcing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Article sourcing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sci-Hub obtains paywalled articles using leaked credentials.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RussellSanchez_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RussellSanchez-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The source of the credentials used by Sci-Hub is unclear.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some appear to have been donated,<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (March 2021)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> some were apparently sold before going to Sci-Hub,<sup id="cite_ref-IGS_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IGS-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and some appear to have been obtained via <a href="/wiki/Phishing" title="Phishing">phishing</a> and were then used by Sci-Hub.<sup id="cite_ref-Ruff_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ruff-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RussellSanchez_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RussellSanchez-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elbakyan denied personally sending any phishing emails and said, "The exact source of the passwords was never personally important to me."<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to The Scholarly Kitchen, a blog established by the <a href="/wiki/Society_for_Scholarly_Publishing" title="Society for Scholarly Publishing">Society for Scholarly Publishing</a> whose members are involved in legal action against Sci-Hub, credentials used by Sci-Hub to access paywalled articles are correlated to access of other information on university networks (such as <a href="/wiki/Cyber_spying_on_universities" title="Cyber spying on universities">cyber spying on universities</a>) and credential sales in black markets.<sup id="cite_ref-SK_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SK-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several articles have reported that Sci-Hub has penetrated the computer networks of more than 370 universities in 39 countries. These include more than 150 institutions in the U.S., more than 30 in Canada, 39 in the UK, and more than 10 in Sweden. The universities in the UK include <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Imperial_College_London" title="Imperial College London">Imperial</a>, and <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College_London" title="King's College London">King's College London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Delivery_to_users">Delivery to users</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Delivery to users"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Sci-Hub website provides access to articles from almost all <a href="/wiki/Academic_publishing" title="Academic publishing">academic publishers</a>, including Elsevier, Springer, <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers" title="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers">Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers</a>, American Chemical Society, <a href="/wiki/Wiley-Blackwell" title="Wiley-Blackwell">Wiley Blackwell</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry" title="Royal Society of Chemistry">Royal Society of Chemistry</a>, as well as open-access works, and distributes them without regard to publishers' copyrights.<sup id="cite_ref-Bohannon_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bohannon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It requires neither payments, nor subscriptions, nor registrations.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 10">: 10 </span></sup> </p><p>Users can access works from all sources with a unified interface by entering the <a href="/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a> in the search bar on the main page or in the Sci-Hub <a href="/wiki/URL" title="URL">URL</a> (like some academic link resolvers), or by appending the Sci-Hub domain to the <a href="/wiki/Internet_domain" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet domain">domain</a> of a publisher's URL (like some academic proxies).<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sci-Hub redirects requests for some <a href="/wiki/Gold_open_access" class="mw-redirect" title="Gold open access">gold open access</a> works, identified as such beyond the metadata available in <a href="/wiki/CrossRef" class="mw-redirect" title="CrossRef">CrossRef</a> and <a href="/wiki/Unpaywall" class="mw-redirect" title="Unpaywall">Unpaywall</a>. Some requests require the user to enter a <a href="/wiki/CAPTCHA" title="CAPTCHA">CAPTCHA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SKhow_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SKhow-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Papers can also be accessed using a <a href="/wiki/Software_agent" title="Software agent">bot</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Instant_messaging" title="Instant messaging">instant messaging</a> service <a href="/wiki/Telegram_(software)" title="Telegram (software)">Telegram</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>If the paper is in the repository already, the request is served immediately. If the paper is not already in the repository, a wait screen appears while the site presents someone else's credentials on behalf of the user to a series of <a href="/wiki/Proxy_server" title="Proxy server">proxies</a> until it finds one that has access to the paper, which is then presented to the user and stored in the repository.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ruff_82-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ruff-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ALM_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ALM-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SKhow_90-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SKhow-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Until the end of 2014, Sci-Hub relied on <a href="/wiki/LibGen" class="mw-redirect" title="LibGen">LibGen</a> as storage: papers requested by users were requested from LibGen and served from there if available, otherwise they were fetched by other means and then stored on LibGen.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The permanent storage made it possible to serve more users than the previous system of deleting the cached content after 6 hours.<sup id="cite_ref-Elbakyan2017_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Elbakyan2017-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since 2015, Sci-Hub uses its own storage<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for the same purpose.<sup id="cite_ref-Elbakyan2017_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Elbakyan2017-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2017, Sci-Hub was continuing to redirect requests for <a href="/wiki/Electronic_books" class="mw-redirect" title="Electronic books">electronic books</a> to LibGen.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Elbakyan2017_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Elbakyan2017-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the site faced increased legal pressure in 2021, <a href="/wiki/Archivist" title="Archivist">archivists</a> initiated a rescue mission to secure enduring access to the website and its contents. They organized on a <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a> website to coordinate decentralized storage and delivery of Sci-Hub contents using <a href="/wiki/BitTorrent" title="BitTorrent">BitTorrent</a> technology.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sci-hub_downloads.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Sci-hub_downloads.png/220px-Sci-hub_downloads.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Sci-hub_downloads.png/330px-Sci-hub_downloads.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Sci-hub_downloads.png/440px-Sci-hub_downloads.png 2x" data-file-width="3105" data-file-height="2380" /></a><figcaption>Download rate for articles on Sci-Hub<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Elbakyan has released download request logs from Sci-Hub servers covering periods from 2011–2013,<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2015–2016,<sup id="cite_ref-datadryad.org_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-datadryad.org-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Studies of the 2017 Sci-Hub download logs indicated that: </p> <ul><li>less than 1% of all journals contribute to over 50% of all downloads while 50% of the least popular journals contribute to <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1%</span> of all downloads. Similar statistics are obtained when the downloads are normalized per article rather than per journal. Such data allowed academic libraries to negotiate reduced subscription costs or cut altogether less popular journals from <a href="/wiki/Big_deal_(subscription_model)" class="mw-redirect" title="Big deal (subscription model)">big deal</a> contracts.<sup id="cite_ref-greshake_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greshake-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>only 11% of all journal publishers are highly requested, while 45% of all publishers are significantly less accessed. Despite this, the oligopoly of publishers is even more remarkable on the level of content consumption, with 80% of all downloads being published through only 9 publishers.<sup id="cite_ref-greshake_97-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greshake-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1/3 of all articles downloaded were published by Elsevier, which published <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 24%</span> of all journal articles.<sup id="cite_ref-greshake_97-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greshake-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2017, Sci-Hub provided a more reliable access to legal <a href="/wiki/Open_access" title="Open access">open access</a> articles, that the journal publishers, which have been prone to "unresolvable DOI's due to issues on publishers’ sides" and to "Open Access publications that disappear behind accidental paywalls".<sup id="cite_ref-greshake_97-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greshake-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Of 27.8 million download requests via Sci-Hub, 23.2 million of these were for journal articles, 4.7 million (22%) of which were articles from medical journals. The requests for medical literature came mostly from middle- and low-income countries (69%); the countries with the most requests in absolute numbers were India, China, the U.S., Brazil, and Iran.<sup id="cite_ref-28-million-Sci-Hub_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28-million-Sci-Hub-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another 2022 study lent evidence to the argument that the free access to scholarly articles that Sci-Hub provides to developing countries is measurably beneficial to the research conducted in those countries themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>In February 2016, the website claimed to serve over 200,000 requests per day<sup id="cite_ref-Bohannon_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bohannon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—an increase from an average of 80,000 per day before the "sci-hub.org" domain was blocked in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Server log data gathered from September 2015 to February 2016<sup id="cite_ref-Logdatanote_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Logdatanote-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and released by Elbakyan in 2016 revealed some usage information. A large amount of Sci-Hub's user activity came from American and European university campuses, and when adjusted for population, usage of Sci-Hub was high for <a href="/wiki/Developed_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Developed countries">developed countries</a>. However, a large proportion of download requests came from <a href="/wiki/Developing_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Developing countries">developing countries</a> such as Iran, China, India, Russia, Brazil, and Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-Bohannon_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bohannon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_35-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> User activity covered all branches of science, engineering, medicine, and humanities.<sup id="cite_ref-Bohannon_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bohannon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2017, the website had 62 million papers in its collection,<sup id="cite_ref-greshake_97-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greshake-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which were found to include 85% of the articles published in paywalled scholarly journals.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although only 69% of all published articles were in the database in March 2017, it has been estimated, based on scholarly citations from articles published between 2015 and July 2017, that at least 96% of requests for paywalled articles are successful.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 27 July 2020, the Sci-Hub website reported that the cumulative number of downloads from the database exceeded one billion, that the average number of downloads per day was 300,000–600,000, and that the database continued its expansion into the pre-digital age, particularly into journal articles published prior to 1980. Among achievements in 2019, Sci-Hub reported the publication of about 15,000 letters by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a>, most of which were not available free of charge, although their copyrights had expired over 100 years previously. In 2019, Elbakyan also reported plans to allow access to Supplemental Information of journal articles in addition to the main texts, which are already available.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A multivariable regression study of Sci-Hub downloads in 2018 on/near university campuses (which subscribe to some, but not all, journals) and in the areas lacking PhD-granting institutions, showed that the use of Sci-Hub is driven mostly by necessity (i.e. lack of subscriptions to the needed journals) rather than by convenience (easier search and access via Sci-Hub interface).<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the study used a definition of "necessity" that included avoiding inconveniences such as multi-factor authentication.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view"><span title="This statement is possibly biased. (June 2024)">neutrality</span></a> is <a href="/wiki/Talk:Sci-Hub" title="Talk:Sci-Hub">disputed</a></i>]</sup> A 2023 study of Sci-Hub usage in Spain instead found that a plurality of surveyed researchers used Sci-Hub for "quick and easy access".<sup id="cite_ref-:14_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:14-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, in the context of the <a href="/wiki/Big_deal_(subscription_model)" class="mw-redirect" title="Big deal (subscription model)">big deal</a> cancellations by several library systems in the world, the wide usage of Sci-Hub was credited as one of the factors that reduced the apparent value of the subscriptions to <a href="/wiki/Toll_access" class="mw-redirect" title="Toll access">toll access</a> resources.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Journal <i><a href="/wiki/Nature_(journal)" title="Nature (journal)">Nature</a></i> reported in 2022 that China had the largest number of downloads (25 million downloads in January of 2022 alone), followed by the United States (10 million) and France (6 million).<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2023 study has found that more than 50% of academic researchers use websites like Sci-Hub to avoid paywalls.<sup id="cite_ref-Segado-Boj-2022-12_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Segado-Boj-2022-12-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Those who do not use Sci-Hub reported the lack of knowledge about the site as the main reason for not using it. Another study, also published in 2023, concluded that Sci-Hub is widely used by students and faculty even at major research universities in developed countries, because Sci-Hub has a larger collection of research articles than any single library in the world and because Sci-Hub provides an easier-to-use interface to retrieve these articles than legal academic libraries. Aside from academic researchers, another large niche of Sci-Hub users are medical professionals outside of university hospitals, who usually do not have access to original publications in medical journals. The same study found the younger researchers and medical professionals use Sci-Hub more frequently than their older colleagues.<sup id="cite_ref-:14_104-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:14-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="User_location">User location</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: User location"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scihub_Feb_2016_pop-adjusted.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Scihub_Feb_2016_pop-adjusted.png/260px-Scihub_Feb_2016_pop-adjusted.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Scihub_Feb_2016_pop-adjusted.png/390px-Scihub_Feb_2016_pop-adjusted.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Scihub_Feb_2016_pop-adjusted.png/520px-Scihub_Feb_2016_pop-adjusted.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="820" /></a><figcaption>Number of papers downloaded from Sci-Hub per capita by country (September 2015 to February 2016)<sup id="cite_ref-datadryad.org_95-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-datadryad.org-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bohannon_5-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bohannon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>A 2016 analysis of 28 million requests to Sci-Hub published in Science with the title <i>Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone</i> shows a map of Sci-Hub users with dots all over the world.<sup id="cite_ref-28-million-Sci-Hub_98-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28-million-Sci-Hub-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2020 study by researchers from 4 countries on 3 continents found that articles downloaded from Sci-Hub were cited 1.72 times more than papers not downloaded from Sci-Hub;<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the study's methods and conclusions were disputed by Phil Davis in a Scholarly Kitchen article.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a 2021 study conducted by the <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_of_Science,_Technology_and_Development_Studies" title="National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies">National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Banaras_Hindu_University" title="Banaras Hindu University">Banaras Hindu University</a> on the use of Sci-Hub in India, 13,144,241 out of 150,575,861 download requests in 2017 were found to have come from Indian IP addresses. Of the research papers downloaded in India, 1,050,62, or 18.46%, of these are already available in some form of open access. Indian users requested an average of 39,952 downloads per day from Sci-Hub in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2018 study found a relatively low use of Sci-Hub in China. This was attributed to blocking of many Sci-Hub hosting sites by <a href="/wiki/Cyberspace_Administration_of_China" title="Cyberspace Administration of China">Cyberspace Administration of China</a> and the existence of a Chinese twin of Sci-Hub, which is not accessible outside of China and is unknown to Western publishers.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the situation in PR China changed in the next 3 years, and the data released by Elbakyan in February 2022 show the number of Sci-Hub downloads from within China having grown so large that, by then, it was more than for any other country.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An analysis of locational data from January 2022 indicated that researchers worldwide are accessing papers using Sci-Hub. China, which topped the chart, had more than 25 million downloads in a month. The U.S. was the second largest (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 38%</span> of PRC downloads), and France the third largest (24% of the U.S.). India had the second-highest number of individual users but only ranked fifth in downloads. This study only assessed downloads from the original Sci-Hub websites and excluded replica or "mirror" sites. It therefore did not count downloads from places where the original domain is banned (e.g. the UK). Furthermore. the use of <a href="/wiki/VPN" class="mw-redirect" title="VPN">VPN</a> can skew some results (e.g. possibly India).<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Archiving_of_scientific_research">Archiving of scientific research</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Archiving of scientific research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sci-Hub effectively does academic archiving outside the bounds of contemporary <a href="/wiki/Copyright_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Copyright law">copyright law</a>, and, unlike <a href="/wiki/Web_archiving" title="Web archiving">Web archiving</a> initiatives such as the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>, also provides access to academic works that do not have an open access license.<sup id="cite_ref-Segado-Boj-2022-12_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Segado-Boj-2022-12-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Claburn_2020_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Claburn_2020-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are data dumps of papers available on Sci-Hub.<sup id="cite_ref-eLife_4-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eLife-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Researchers have also made their own mirrored repositories of Sci-Hub.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, in response to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, a group of online archivists used Sci-Hub to create an archive of over 5,000 articles about <a href="/wiki/Coronavirus" title="Coronavirus">coronaviruses</a>. They admitted that making the archive openly accessible was illegal but considered it a <a href="/wiki/Moral_imperative" title="Moral imperative">moral imperative</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bender_2020_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bender_2020-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sci-Hub's interface is perceived by users as providing a superior user experience and convenience compared to the typical interfaces available to users who have access to a paid subscription.<sup id="cite_ref-shadowill_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-shadowill-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2022, in the journal <i>Information Development</i>, an academic researcher survey found, when confronted by a paywall, they try to find an open-access version, then ask colleagues with other credentials, then use <a href="/wiki/Shadow_library" title="Shadow library">shadow libraries</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Segado-Boj-2022-12_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Segado-Boj-2022-12-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 57% of respondents have used shadow libraries while 36% of respondents were unaware that shadow libraries exist.<sup id="cite_ref-Segado-Boj-2022-12_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Segado-Boj-2022-12-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sci-Hub has been lauded as having "changed how we access knowledge".<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It raised awareness about the scientific publishing business models and its ethics of making researchers' institutions pay for their articles to be published, while providing and reviewing them without payment.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Support for open-access <a href="/wiki/Science_publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="Science publishing">science publishing</a> extends beyond Sci-Hub; <a href="/wiki/Plan_S" title="Plan S">Plan S</a> is an initiative launched by <a href="/wiki/Science_Europe" title="Science Europe">Science Europe</a> on 4 September 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is an initiative of "cOAlition S",<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a consortium launched by major national research agencies and funders from twelve European countries. The plan requires scientists and researchers who benefit from state-funded research organisations and institutions to publish their work in open repositories or in journals that are available to all by 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-Economist_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Economist-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The initiative is not a law.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Scientists in some European countries began negotiations with Elsevier and other academic publishers on introducing national open access.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Publishers have been critical of Sci-Hub, some claiming that it is undermining more widely accepted open-access initiatives<sup id="cite_ref-ALM_92-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ALM-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that it ignores how publishers "work hard" to make access for third-world nations easier.<sup id="cite_ref-ALM_92-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ALM-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has also been criticized by librarians for compromising universities' <a href="/wiki/Network_security" title="Network security">network security</a> and jeopardizing legitimate access to papers by university staff.<sup id="cite_ref-Ruff_82-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ruff-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ALM_92-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ALM-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RussellSanchez_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RussellSanchez-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SK_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SK-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cybersecurity threat posed by Sci-Hub has been questioned and the suggestion made that the threat has been exaggerated by large publishers keen to protect their business model by discrediting Sci-Hub or pushing universities to block students access to Sci-Hub.<sup id="cite_ref-timeshighereducation.com_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timeshighereducation.com-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Moreover, even prominent Western institutions such as <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell</a> have had to cut down their access to publications due to ever-increasing subscription costs,<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> potentially causing some of the highest use of Sci-Hub to be in American cities with well-known universities (this may, however, be due to the convenience of the site rather than a lack of access).<sup id="cite_ref-Bohannon_5-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bohannon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Smithsonian_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Smithsonian Magazine">Smithsonian Magazine</a>, Sci-Hub can be seen as one venue in a general trend in which research is becoming more accessible.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many academics, university librarians, and longtime advocates for open scholarly research believe Elbakyan is "giving academic publishers their <a href="/wiki/Napster" title="Napster">Napster</a> moment", referring to the illegal music-sharing service that "disrupted and permanently altered the industry".<sup id="cite_ref-WaPo_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPo-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For her actions in creating Sci-Hub, Elbakyan has been called a hero and "spiritual successor to <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Swartz" title="Aaron Swartz">Aaron Swartz</a>", who in 2010 downloaded millions of academic articles from <a href="/wiki/JSTOR" title="JSTOR">JSTOR</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_129-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has also been compared to <a href="/wiki/Edward_Snowden" title="Edward Snowden">Edward Snowden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_129-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has also been called a "<a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a> of science" by <a href="/wiki/Big_Think" title="Big Think">Big Think</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bigthink_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bigthink-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elbakyan responded by attacking "a <a href="/wiki/Double_dipping_(publishing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Double dipping (publishing)">double-dipping model</a>, that benefits only to publishers while creating an illusion of conformance with the Open Access goals",<sup id="cite_ref-Newtonew2016_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newtonew2016-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in a reference to <a href="/wiki/Hybrid_open-access_journal" title="Hybrid open-access journal">hybrid open-access journals</a> run by legacy publishers (like Elsevier and ACS), which charge <a href="/wiki/Article_processing_charge" title="Article processing charge">APCs</a> for some articles to make them <a href="/wiki/Gratis_open_access" class="mw-redirect" title="Gratis open access">gratis open access</a>, while still selling subscriptions and other licenses to access the same journals. </p><p>In August 2016, the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_American_Publishers" title="Association of American Publishers">Association of American Publishers</a> sent a letter to Gabriel J. Gardner, a researcher at <a href="/wiki/California_State_University" title="California State University">California State University</a> who has written papers on Sci-Hub and similar sites. The letter asked Gardner to stop promoting the site, which he had discussed at a session of a meeting of the <a href="/wiki/American_Library_Association" title="American Library Association">American Library Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In response, the publishing institution was highly criticized for trying to silence legitimate research into the topic, and the letter has since been published in full and responded to by the dean of library services at <a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_Long_Beach" title="California State University, Long Beach">Cal State Long Beach</a>, who supported Gardner's work.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2016, <a href="/wiki/Nature_Publishing_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Nature Publishing Group">Nature Publishing Group</a> named Elbakyan as one of the <a href="/wiki/Nature%27s_10" title="Nature's 10">ten people who most mattered in science</a> in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elbakyan received the Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge from the <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> in 2023 for her work on Sci-Hub.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine">2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, <a href="/wiki/TorrentFreak" title="TorrentFreak">TorrentFreak</a> said that Sci-Hub is the only option for academics in Russia to access to research articles, as fifteen major publishers suspended services in Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Shadow_libraries" title="Category:Shadow libraries">Category:Shadow libraries</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive" title="Anna's Archive">Anna's Archive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library_Genesis" title="Library Genesis">Library Genesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Z-Library" title="Z-Library">Z-Library</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ICanHazPDF" title="ICanHazPDF">#ICanHazPDF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guerilla_Open_Access_Manifesto" title="Guerilla Open Access Manifesto">Guerilla Open Access Manifesto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12ft.io" class="mw-redirect" title="12ft.io">12ft.io</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library.nu" title="Library.nu">Library.nu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_access" title="Open access">Open access</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay">The Pirate Bay</a></li> <li><a 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 June</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Sci-Hub+Only+Option+For+Academics+In+Russia+After+Major+Publishers+Pull+Out+%2A+TorrentFreak&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftorrentfreak.com%2Fsci-hub-only-option-for-academics-in-russia-after-major-publishers-pull-out-220405%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASci-Hub" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sci-Hub&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Alexandra Elbakyan. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2016/info/transcript-and-translation-sci-hub-presentation">Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub</a></i> (transcript and translation), Open Access Symposium 2016, <a href="/wiki/University_of_North_Texas" title="University of North Texas">University of North Texas</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160724015906/http://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2016/info/transcript-and-translation-sci-hub-presentation">Archived</a> from the original, 2016-07-24)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcLaughlin2016" class="citation web cs1">McLaughlin, Stephen Reid (19 March 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221128131449/http://www.stephenmclaughlin.net/2016/03/19/sci-hublibgen-in-blogs-and-the-media-a-recent-bibliography/">"Sci-Hub/LibGen in Blogs and the Media"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.stephenmclaughlin.net/2016/03/19/sci-hublibgen-in-blogs-and-the-media-a-recent-bibliography/">the original</a> on 28 November 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Sci-Hub%2FLibGen+in+Blogs+and+the+Media&rft.date=2016-03-19&rft.aulast=McLaughlin&rft.aufirst=Stephen+Reid&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stephenmclaughlin.net%2F2016%2F03%2F19%2Fsci-hublibgen-in-blogs-and-the-media-a-recent-bibliography%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASci-Hub" class="Z3988"></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stephenmclaughlin.net/sci-hub/McLaughlin_Sci-Hub-LibGen-Bib_3-2016.pdf">(PDF)</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcNutt2016" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Marcia_McNutt" title="Marcia McNutt">McNutt, Marcia</a> (29 April 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.aaf9419">"My love-hate of Sci-Hub"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Science_(journal)" title="Science (journal)">Science</a></i>. <b>352</b> (6285). <a href="/wiki/American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" title="American Association for the Advancement of Science">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>: 497. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016Sci...352..497M">2016Sci...352..497M</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.aaf9419">10.1126/science.aaf9419</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/PMID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMID (identifier)">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27126012">27126012</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:206650367">206650367</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Science&rft.atitle=My+love-hate+of+Sci-Hub&rft.volume=352&rft.issue=6285&rft.pages=497&rft.date=2016-04-29&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1126%2Fscience.aaf9419&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A206650367%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=info%3Apmid%2F27126012&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F2016Sci...352..497M&rft.aulast=McNutt&rft.aufirst=Marcia&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1126%252Fscience.aaf9419&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASci-Hub" class="Z3988"></span> (Archived from the original)</li> <li>Houle, Louis (2017) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1892/">Sci-Hub and LibGen: what if… why not?</a> Paper presented at: <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_of_Library_Associations_and_Institutions" title="International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions">International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions</a> WLIC 2017 – Wrocław, Poland – Libraries. 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title="Privacy in file sharing networks">Privacy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous_P2P" title="Anonymous P2P">Anonymous P2P</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darknet" title="Darknet">Darknet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darkweb" class="mw-redirect" title="Darkweb">Darkweb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friend-to-friend" title="Friend-to-friend">Friend-to-friend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_music_model" title="Open music model">Open music model</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Private_P2P" class="mw-redirect" title="Private P2P">Private P2P</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tor_(network)" title="Tor (network)">Tor</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Internal<br />technologies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 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