Access Scholar Articles

Get access to journals and articles using your university's credentials.
What is Access Scholar Articles?
Access Scholar Articles is a lightweight Chrome extension that allows students and researchers to easily access restricted scholar articles using their university's credentials. It redirects the user to the unlocked version of the article with just one click, eliminating the need to go through the university's library website. Compatible with multiple scholar websites, including IEEE Xplore, Nature.com, ProQuest, ACM Digital Library, and SpringerLink. Enhance your researching experience with Access Scholar Articles.

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By: Gerard
Users: 90 ▲ 2
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2023-07-08)
Creation date: 2020-12-20
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • scripting
Size: 1.22M

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Extension summary

This lightweight extension allows students and researchers at the University of Malta (and other universities) to access restricted scholar articles.

Same Universities offer their students/staff access to several journals and websites. Unfortunately it can be cumbersome to unlock a scholar article since you would have to go through the University's library website. Using this extension you can easily redirect to the unlocked version of the scholar article with one click, without having to leave the article that you want to read.

For example, this locked article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03048-z would be redirected to the unlocked version in one click: https://www-nature-com.ejournals.um.edu.mt/articles/s41586-020-03048-z

The default university access page is set to the University of Malta. This extension works with other universities - to do so, change the URL redirection to an EZproxy URL in the options.

This extension works with several scholar websites, including (but not limited to): IEEE Xplore, Nature.com, ProQuest, ACM Digital Library and SpringerLink.

This extension provides a very lightweight addition to the browser, while improving significantly the researching experience.

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Access Scholar Articles does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Access Scholar Articles has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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