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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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Iris2019年6月1日
1

Not working. Nothing shows.

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Serena Sangiorgi2019年2月14日
4

Utilissimo per trovare copia degli articoli pubblicati, in giro per il mondo.

Language it
3 helpful · 5 not helpful
J. Albert Bowden2019年2月3日
5

seems like scihub is down for me. what to do?!?!?!? before despair could set in, installed unpaywall and had access to the document i desired instantaneously! works as advertised! open everything!

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
王xu2019年1月13日
3

哪些网站可以用呢,我咋至今没见到一个绿色按钮呢

Language zh
15 helpful · 2 not helpful
G Bell2018年11月20日
5

A must have app ahead of any scientific review.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Vanessa Fortune2018年10月18日
5

Fantastic! I love it - it makes me happy. A happy little nerd-ling.

Language en
12 helpful · 3 not helpful
绾海WanHai2018年9月18日
4

要是插件支持中文就更好了

Language zh
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Egon Willighagen2018年8月16日
5

Easy to use extension, giving access to many paywalled journal articles.

Language en
9 helpful · 2 not helpful
Mark Ray2018年5月25日
5

Love it! There aren't free versions of every paper (those on ResearchGate aren't available), but I'd say it has a 75% success rate. And you can't beat the price.

Language en
10 helpful · 1 not helpful
Leda Eliana Mendia Jimenez2018年5月6日
5

Muy util y rapido

Language es
3 helpful · 3 not helpful