Is there any connection between this and libgen? That also has a bunch of papers...

sean_appleby · on March 6, 2017

I can't find a better source, but sci-hub's wikipedia page [1] says that new articles are accessed through educational institution proxies and then stored in libgen for future access.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

wolfgke · on March 6, 2017

I don't know about details, but if you enter a book URL (e.g. at Springer Link) into Sci-Hub, it sometimes also brings you to the corresponding page at LibGen. So I would assume that there is at least some collaboration between these two sites.

ycmbntrthrwaway · on March 6, 2017

If it is on libgen, it is not downloaded, but you are given a libgen link.

Libgen also redirects you to sci-hub.bz if you search scientific article it doesn't have.

They collaborate, but different people are behind these projects.