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Open Access

From Paywalled to OA Versions

More and more funders and universities require their authors to upload an OA version of their work to repositories. This means that, for many paywalled articles, there is also an OA version somewhere. Several (perfectly legal) tools have been developed to help readers to find them.

OA Only Tools

                                                                                               

Tool for OA and Paywalled Versions

           

  • Endnote Click is a browser extension for Chrome and Edge that finds the "best" (if possible, the final publication) PDF version of an article, in OA repositories or via the user's university subscription. A "locker" allows previously accessed articles to be saved.

  • Google Scholar automatically searches open access or paywalled versions of articles. 

OA Aggregators

These tools provide a search platform for open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide:

OA Directories