That&#x27;s a good question.  I don&#x27;t know if there has been an attempt to IPFS&#x2F;Torrent the files, but it would be good.  They are referenced by DOI on sci-hub so they are easily searched.  It would probably be helpful to have a DOI -&gt; IPFS&#x2F;Torrent name.  For IPFS a doi like 10.1037&#x2F;rmh0000008 would probably work but I don&#x27;t know if the &#x27;&#x2F;&#x27; character will work as a torrent name.<p>I don&#x27;t know that the sci-hub underlying database is available outside of the site.  I expect with growth they will need to move to torrents or similar to minimize their bandwidth requirements.