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Open Access Research

A comprehensive guide on the resources that are made available to the collective research community, both at USF and abroad. Functioning as a one-stop shop for post-grads and community researchers, this guide covers a wide range of information.

Overview

Enhance your browsing experience with plugins that seamlessly integrate open access content. These browser plugins enable researchers to quickly identify and access OA articles, streamline citation management, and ensure compliance with OA mandates. Optimize your research workflow directly within your web browser.

Browser Plugins for OA

Open Access Button:
The Open Access Button is a browser plugin that helps users find free, legal versions of academic articles. By searching through titles, DOIs, or URLs, it identifies open-access versions available across various repositories and websites. This tool makes scholarly research more accessible by breaking down paywalls and connecting researchers to freely available content.

Unpaywall:
Unpaywall is a browser plugin that locates open-access versions of scholarly articles by searching their DOIs. Integrated seamlessly into the user's web browser, it displays an icon when a free version of the article is available, linking directly to it. Unpaywall simplifies the process of accessing academic research, making it easier for researchers to find and use open-access resources.