Unpaywall
Legally get full text of scholarly articles as you browse.
Total ratings
4.02
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Saves time searching for open-access versions of papers
- When it works, it can successfully unlock research articles
- User-friendly and practical for accessing science papers
Cons
- Inconsistent performance; doesn't always find papers
- Often fails to work on certain sites, particularly French journals
- Limited success accessing articles behind paywalls
Most mentioned
- Works inconsistently
- Saves time when it does work
- Not effective for certain sites or journals
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
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| 2024-10-22 |  | | ||
| 2024-10-18 |  | | en | It's a dice roll whether it finds a paper or not, but when it works it saves you time for sure. It stopped working today and I'm not sure why. Do I need to switch back to Firefox? |
| 2024-10-07 |  | | es | no pierdan su tiempo con esta cosa inservible |
| 2024-09-29 |  | | en | It's Incredibly terrible... |
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| 2024-09-19 |  | | ru | Супер расширение! |
| 2024-09-02 |  | | en | it helped me to get research article. |
| 2024-08-30 |  | | en | unbelievably handy, I'll pay for this! Chrome is being d0u(hy as usual & wants to remove this, I hope either it gets resolved or to get a git, etc link and I'll load it on developer mode. |
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