Google Scholar Button
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Lookup scholarly articles as you browse the web.
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Lean Library
A library-approved tool to unlock access to academic papers.
Users200KCurrent public install base
Rating3.4Store average score
Reviews142Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
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Version2026.5.0
ManifestV3
Size11.91MiB
Languages1English
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Providing an uninterrupted research rhythm
Lean Library is a free end-to-end research tool that brings your library’s services and resources directly into your research workflow, no matter where you start your research. Whether you are discovering and accessing academic content or saving references, Lean Library puts your library right at the heart of every research journey. Instantly and legally unlock millions of academic articles, eBooks, and open access content, avoid paywalls, and receive customised guidance from your library. Save references, highlight and annotate content, get journal alerts, and build information literacy skills with article retraction alerts and trust ratings—all from within your browser.
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affiliated with an institution, you can still get quick and seamless redirection to open access materials absolutely free by downloading the extension and selecting Lean Library Open as your library.
Please note, the Lean Library browser extension works together with Lean Library
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Store average score3.4Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.1Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text103Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews142Chrome Web Store public rating/review count
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Ez a kiegeszito nagyon segiti a tanulasomat. Javallott!
Slows down Google Chrome (Version 88.0.4324.104 (Official Build) (64-bit)) enormously. Cannot recommend.
Works fairly well most of the time but every now end then, it just uses a lot of CPU even when I'm not actually doing anything in Chrome. This hasn't changed over the last few months (and last few versions of Chrome), it seems to happen when I wake my laptop up after it being in sleep mode but I do that a lot so that might be a coincidence.
breaks all the time
Something broken in update - tries to take over google search so that it is unable.
Very handy when i'm on websites that are not traditionally supported by my university, but somehow are anyway.
Useful but uses up 500Mb+ of RAM on "idle". Almost as if this extension is mining crypto or something while it's installed and running.
Very useful extension, hence the extra stars, but makes the chrome browser extremely slow, hence only two.
Helpful app but you need to either change the default so that the access pop-up doesn't not come up unprompted OR provide users that option. More often than note, this pop-up is super annoying and it would be helpful to just be able to click the icon when you need help with institutional access to an article. Using most up to date version of chrome
Great premise but causing continuously HUGE CPU usage, making Chrome unbearably slow. Defaulting to whitelisting only known journal sites might help. Developer: try using this on an old or mobile processored computer with more than a few tabs open.