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Resources to Bypass Paywalls


Nexus Bots

Requires Instagram.

https://libstc.nexus


Websites

Anna's Archive

Science Hub Mutual Aid (pidantuan) for scholarly articles

LibGen (Library Genesis) for books

Z-Library for books

Sci-Hub for scholarly articles
sci-hub isn't accepting new uploads since 2021 due to mire in court

Archive Today for snapshots of web pages

Elsevier + Elsevier Evolve

Retired


Web Browser Extensions

Bypass Paywalls Clean

Bypass Paywalls Clean for news websites.

Also see Magnolia on X

Previous Links/Versions of Bypass Paywalls Clean

Unpaywall

Unpaywall for scholarly articles

PaperPanda

PaperPanda for scholarly articles

Others

https://github.com/AliasIO/demodal

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/35521-bypass-paywalls-for-scientific-documents

Unmaintained


Torrents

See Torrenting Article


Libraries

Libraries have access to many journals. Sometimes they even give you the online login information.

For example, search for “consumer reports library login”


Reddit

Reddit SuperList


Towards an Open Society


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_peer_review
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science_data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_governance