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Unpaywall

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Legally get full text of scholarly articles as you browse.

Get full text of scholarly articles as you browse. When you view a research article, Unpaywall automatically looks for a copy in our index of 20 million free, legal fulltext PDFs. If we find one, click the green tab to read the article. Unpaywall points you to legal, author-posted manuscripts that are hosted on university and government web servers. We are pointing to versions that have been posted with the full and explicit authorization of the publishers themselves. These free, author-posted manuscripts are often called "Green Open Access" and are a longstanding and completely legal part of the scholarly communications ecosystem. The majority of scholarly journals permit authors to "self-archive" their papers on university and government web servers. It's these legally self-archived papers that Unpaywall helps users find. Any papers posted outside of publisher permissions are NOT included in our index.

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Thiago Barros de Oliveira thiagobarrosMar 7, 2024

This is GREAT! Works well and its very practical!

2 out of 2 people found this helpful
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Charlie MurdochFeb 28, 2024

I am doing research on Roe V Wade. This did not get me past ANY paywall. NOT ONE. Not from medical journals, not from newspapers, not from Substack or Medium, I hit a paywall for every single article and journal I needed access to. Complete waste of time

6 out of 11 people found this helpful
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paul benjaminJan 13, 2024

best thing ever created

3 out of 4 people found this helpful

Details

  • Version
    3.98
  • Updated
    July 30, 2021
  • Size
    667KiB
  • Languages
    English
  • Developer
  • Non-trader
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  • Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
  • Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
  • Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

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