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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

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Hannes Grebin2017年4月26日
5

Excellent approach. Thank you1

Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ben Rush2017年4月20日
2

I searched Pubmed for a topic I'm interested in and looked at the first nine papers. Two had the fulltext available directly from the link, so Unpaywall wasn't necessary (although it did light up green). Unpaywall was grey for the remaining seven papers. Seems pretty redundant, from this admittedly not-very-scientific sample.

Language en
6 helpful · 2 not helpful
Ken Law2017年4月16日
5

great helpful for me !!!

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Roman Voloshchuk2017年4月15日
5

классное приложение !

Language ru
2 helpful · 3 not helpful
Nazar Odynaiev2017年4月13日
5

Good job!

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Cliff B2017年4月11日
5

The more people have access to the real research, the less likely they are to distrust science.

Language en
4 helpful · 1 not helpful
Zhiyuan Qin2017年4月11日
5

amazing extension~

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Peter Buck2017年4月10日
5

Addresses an old frustration. I love it already.

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3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Nick Shockey2017年4月6日
5

(COI: Part of the Open Access Button team)

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1 helpful · 4 not helpful
Jake Orlowitz2017年4月5日
5

Brilliant idea and implementation. We need to get this functionality built in everywhere there is a citation!

Language en
7 helpful · 1 not helpful