Unpaywall
A browser extension that finds legal open-access copies of paywalled research papers.
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About Unpaywall
Unpaywall is a browser extension for people who read academic literature. When you open a research paper that sits behind a paywall, it looks for a legal open-access copy of the same paper and points you to it.
It suits students, researchers and anyone following scientific work who does not have institutional access to every journal and wants to find freely and legally available versions of articles.
Strengths
- Finds legal open-access versions of paywalled papers
- Works while browsing, without separate searches
Limitations
- Only helps when an open-access copy exists
- Limited to research articles
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to install.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- Browser extension
- How it runs
- Browser extension
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Students and researchers looking for free legal copies of papers
- Categories
- Browser tools, Learning tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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