Sci-Hub Official | Get Articles, Books and Journals | 2025

Active Sci-Hub Website Links in the USA (2025):

Sci-hub is also known as Sci Hub founded by Alexandra Elbakyan. It is a site that provides users of the United States of America (USA) and others free access to articles, research papers, journals, and books that otherwise might not be accessible to them. It has a database of nearly 88,343,822 research papers, articles, and books.

Sci-Hub has multiple sister sites because some sites are unavailable in certain regions. So, check out our official sites and find which one is working in your area without a VPN.

The above-mentioned links are working. If you encounter any issues with them, kindly let us know!

Kindly follow each step with full attention to avoid any type of difficulty in accessing your desired academic piece!

1. Find the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) of the article or book and copy it by searching on Google or Google Scholar in any browser like Chrome.
2. Then open the Sci-hub official website and paste the complete DOI.
3. Just by clicking the open button in the portal, it will show you the PDF version of the paper and you can download it.

If you need further information, you can check how to use the sci-hub guide for detailed guidance.

Here are a few important steps to download a book.

1. Find the ISBN of the Book and copy it.
2. Enter that number into the search bar.
3. Then click on open, it will provide you with the book if it is available in our database.

This is a common question asked by several users because we have multiple websites, and after some time, our domains got changed. Above, I have mentioned the links that are active now in 2025. Among the above sites, some of them are active from 2023; some sites are being updated today. Nowadays, we are operating through various sites other than the official one to provide unrestricted access to our platform all over the world.

The main purpose of Sci-hub is to make knowledge, especially scientific knowledge, accessible to all students, researchers, and teachers who cannot afford the high charges of the literature, especially medicine-related literature. It is removing barriers to humanities by providing expensive material to poor scientific researchers for free.

Yes it is 100% safe because it only provides us our desired article. We have to consider a few things prior to downloading the article from a site; these things are

• Make sure the site is official.
• Always download the PDF version of the file. Because the official site only provides a PDF file of the article. If a site offers you another format, then avoid that domain.
• Do not share any other thing because the original site only required a DOI number to provide you with your desired articles or eBooks.