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Unpaywall

Legally get full text of scholarly articles as you browse.

Users900KCurrent public install base
Rating4.0Store average score
Reviews280Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version3.99
ManifestV3
Size670KiB
Languages1English
Published
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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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Store average score4.0Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.4Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text139Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews280Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.0. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Kaitlyn Krenik2020年8月19日
2

I downloaded to try to unlock Wall Street Journal. Doesn't work. Also doesn't work on any psychology articles I looked for.

Language en
1 helpful · 3 not helpful
Zot 12020年8月2日
5

It's awesome, no need to spend time trying to find a free pdf. It even find stuff I'm not able to find when I take the time. Very impressive. Thank you so much for sharing your time and talents!

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Hemanth N2020年2月11日
5

I've installed less than an hour ago, and I'm in love with it already!!

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Ross Mounce2020年1月27日
5

This even outperforms Sci-Hub sometimes! Excellent tool.

Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
David Brotman2019年10月18日
2

Not working for nytimes.com

Language en
6 helpful · 5 not helpful
Nick Westgate2019年10月14日
5

Love it! It worked on all the papers I tried today. Victory for the non-medical-professional amateur-armchair-scientist geeks. Thanks so much!

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Federico Leva2019年9月24日
5

Ottima estensione per trovare facilmente i PDF durante l'uso normale, in qualunque sito ci si trovi. Non devo più lanciare una caccia al tesoro ogni volta che visito un editore o archivio istituzionale per capire dove sia il pulsante che porta all'eventuale PDF! Il 50 % delle pubblicazioni scientifiche recenti è disponibile e facilissimo da scaricare grazie a tutte le università che hanno messo a disposizione le opere in accesso aperto verde.

Language it
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Awair802019年8月28日
1

Doesn't work....

Language en
19 helpful · 2 not helpful
Neil Thawani2019年7月14日
2

A simple Google Scholar search revealed free instances of a semi-popular article referenced in a tech news outlet that the extension did not locate. This extension is not worth downloading.

Language en
1 helpful · 3 not helpful
Tony “Big-Tony” Wilford2019年7月2日
5

Great Extension! Keep fighting the struggle for freedom of free information!

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful