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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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Joe Mcarthur (Joe)2017年3月30日
5

Fantastic extension, really helpful!!! (COI: I make the Open Access Button, which is like Unpaywall)

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2 helpful · 3 not helpful
Yuxiong Sha2017年3月29日
5

Excellent by now

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1 helpful · 2 not helpful
Ethan White2017年3月16日
5

The simplest way I've ever found for finding legally open versions of pay walled papers. (COI: I volunteer my time as a member of the Impactstory board)

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3 helpful · 2 not helpful
David Mellor2017年3月15日
5

This works incredibly well, thank you for creating it!

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4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Andrew Treloar2017年3月15日
5

Super easy to use extension that looks for legally free versions of papers that you want to read but are behind a paywall. Even easier than my institutional EZProxy setup! Must have for anyone who wants access to the research literature.

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5 helpful · 0 not helpful
John Wilbanks2017年3月14日
5

Easy to use, fast to install, helps me find the papers I need.

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4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Heather Piwowar2017年3月13日
5

Makes it really easy to find free versions of the papers you want to read! I'm one of the developers, so I am a little biased -- try it for yourself and see :)

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1 helpful · 2 not helpful
Jason Priem2017年3月11日
5

I love it! But then again I am one of the developers so you should take that with a grain of salt I guess :P

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1 helpful · 5 not helpful
Timo Sulg2017年3月11日
5

Works well!

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3 helpful · 0 not helpful