Unpaywall

Unpaywall

Legally get full text of scholarly articles as you browse.

Total ratings for Unpaywall
4.06 (Rating count: 222)
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Pros
  • Saves money on accessing research papers
  • Useful for students and researchers
  • Sometimes finds free versions of articles
Cons
  • Does not work on many paywalled sites
  • Often fails to find free versions of papers
  • Does not bypass news outlets' paywalls
Most mentioned
  • Doesn't work on many sites
  • Useful when it does find free articles
  • Free access to scientific journals, not mainstream media
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Recent rating average: 3.80
All time rating average: 4.06
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Date Author Rating Lang Comment
2024-03-07
Thiago Barros de Oliveira thiagobarros
Thiago Barros de Oliveira thiagobarros
en This is GREAT! Works well and its very practical!
2024-02-28
Charlie Murdoch
Charlie Murdoch
en I am doing research on Roe V Wade. This did not get me past ANY paywall. NOT ONE. Not from medical journals, not from newspapers, not from Substack or Medium, I hit a paywall for every single article and journal I needed access to. Complete waste of time
2024-02-26
mrbold88
mrbold88
es No funciona en articulo de medicineonline.org
2024-01-23
Morgane Blain
Morgane Blain
fr génial ! ça sauve mon doctorat
2024-01-14
paul benjamin
paul benjamin
en best thing ever created
2023-12-25
Lazar Jovanovic
Lazar Jovanovic
2023-12-19
Merey Abaidildin
Merey Abaidildin
2023-12-06
glitch0101
glitch0101
2023-12-01
Luke Sanders
Luke Sanders
2023-11-26
Jérémy
Jérémy
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