[ExI] Legally bypass paywalls to get full-text research papers

[BillK]

A New Browser Plug-In Lets You Access Millions of Scientific Papers for Free

<https://futurism.com/a-new-browser-plug-in-lets-you-access-millions-of-scientific-papers-for-free/>

Quotes:
Unpaywall is a web browser plug-in that brings free information to
those who seek facts. The open-source service is disrupting
traditional publishing by giving users access to peer-reviewed journal
articles for free, and it's all totally legal.

Unlike similar services that rely on means like automated web
scraping, Unpaywall’s method of getting full-text access to scientific
journals is totally legal. It scans a database of more than 90 million
digital object identifiers (DOIs) for copies of papers that the
researchers themselves have uploaded, whether on some pre-press
servers or university websites. Unpaywall is also completely secure,
as it doesn’t ask you for any personal information.

Best of all, to use the service, you just need to install the plug-in
on your Chrome or Firefox desktop browser. A little lock symbol will
appear every time you visit a journal article’s landing page. If the
lock is green, you have access to a full-text copy of the article. A
gold lock means an article already has open license access from the
publisher.
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After you install the plugin, they provide an example where you can
read a Nature article, then bypass the paywall to get the full-text
paper.

Looks useful!

BillK