Sci-Hub is a paywall-bypassing website that uses "shared" user credentials to provide PDF or HTML scientific papers. The website itself doesn't store any papers. (There are interesting comments on your [same question on another site][1].) But [LibGen (via wayback machine)][2] [is said to archive each PDF retrieved by Sci-Hub](https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/sci-hub-and-alexandra-basic-information/). http://gen.lib.rus.ec has a downloads page - (click the tab to show more options) + Torrent - books and text books - http://libgen.io/repository_torrent/ + Torrent - scientific papers - http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/repository_torrent/ + Usenet - http://libgen.io/repository_nzb/ + DB dump - http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/ [![enter image description here][3]][3] [1]: https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/63330 [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20190330215241/https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/sci-hub-and-alexandra-basic-information/ [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/j3cEq.png