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Free & Open Access Resources

This guide compiles free and open access resources available to researchers. With a focus on Linda Hall Library patrons, this guide prioritizes free resources geared towards science, technology, and engineering research.

Unpaywall

Unpaywall is a Chrome/Firefox app that can help you find legal, open access copies of scholarly articles, that are freely available to anyone. When you're on a paywalled article, you'll see a lock icon over to the right of the article. 

A open access copy of this article, either a preprint or version that's been accepted, is freely available on this site or elsewhere, like an institutional repository. Click the green lock to get the article.
A free/open access version of this article couldn't be found.