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Sci-Hub is a website that provides free access to millions of research papers, bypassing paywalls and copyright issues. Founded by Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011, it has faced legal challenges and domain name changes, but remains popular and controversial.
ResearchGate is a European website that connects researchers and allows them to share papers, ask questions, and find collaborators. It has over 25 million users, mainly in medicine and biology, and features a job board, a blogging feature, and an author-level metric called RG Score.
A comprehensive and updated list of notable databases and search engines for finding and accessing academic articles, books, datasets, and other resources. Compare the coverage, retrieval qualities, access costs, and providers of different services across disciplines and domains.
Academia.edu is a commercial site that allows researchers to upload and distribute academic articles for free. It also publishes open access journals and has faced criticism for using the .edu domain name and its business model.
Google Scholar is a free web search engine that indexes various formats and disciplines of academic publications, such as journals, books, theses, and patents. It also provides features for citation analysis, author profiles, and related articles.
Library Genesis (LibGen) is a file-sharing site that provides free access to scholarly and general-interest content, such as books, articles, comics, and magazines. It has a history of legal issues with publishers and is blocked by some ISPs, but also has a global user base and a peer-to-peer network.
Free Download Manager is a proprietary download manager for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. It has features such as download acceleration, torrent support, and file management, but also a history of spreading Linux malware via its website.
Ijad Madisch (born 7 October 1980 in Wolfsburg, Germany) is a German virologist, founder and CEO of the research network ResearchGate and member of the Digital Council (Digitalrat) of the Cabinet of Germany (Bundesregierung).