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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
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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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Shackleton2018年4月5日
5

When you need to find the original research, this is the perfect extension. I use this on all my personal computers. Unpaywall is an absolute must have extension!

Language en
4 helpful · 1 not helpful
Luis Anton Imperial2018年3月5日
5

Works like a charm!

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3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Andrew Mathas2017年10月11日
5

Works really well. Of course, it doesn't always find a free version of the article but it often does Very helpful!

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3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Nikoleta Despodova2017年10月7日
1

It doesn't work; it doesn't show at all.

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6 helpful · 2 not helpful
Anonymous user2017年8月20日
1

Didn't work for me.

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4 helpful · 3 not helpful
Nikolaj Feidenhans'l2017年8月9日
3

It generally works nicely and is very convenient! However, Google Scholar can often find papers not found by this extension.

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1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Owen Shen2017年7月18日
3

Doesn't check for all free papers Often Google Scholar + ResearchGate yields better results for free legal papers.

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0 helpful · 1 not helpful
J Norton2017年5月18日
5

Incredibly simple. Vastly better than the alternative. I've saved hours in avoiding manual searches in the few months I've had this.

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2 helpful · 0 not helpful
John Havlasek2017年4月29日
5

Science needs to get more centralized.

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1 helpful · 2 not helpful
Julian Kaldenhoff2017年4月28日
5

Works suprisingly often. Free research to free your mind!

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful