How to Get Paid Journal Articles for Free

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How can I get free journal articles?
How can I get full text articles for free?
How do I get Elsevier journals for free?
How can I get ScienceDirect for free?
How can I get papers for free?
Are open access journals free?
How do I get PubMed articles for free?
How do you get a full text journal article?
Is Unpaywall safe?
Is it free to publish in Elsevier?
How do I get Scopus for free?
Is Elsevier a good journal?

How can I get free journal articles?

Here are some ways people get journal articles for free:

Unpaywall: Download the app, Unpaywall. ...
Do a basic "Google" search for the article. ...
Ask the author for it. ...
If you're a member of the American Speech–Language–Hearing Association (ASHA), you get access to their journals for free. ...
Visit a university.

How can I get full text articles for free?

Free full-text articles can be approached in the following ways.

Medknow Publications. ...
PubMed Central and PubMed. ...
Directory of Open Access Journals. ...
Electronic Resources in Medicine Consortium and National Medical Library. ...
Google, Google Scholar, and Yahoo. ...
The Cochrane Library. ...
Public Library of Science. ...
Free Medical Journals.

How do I get Elsevier journals for free?

Open Access Button: Enter an article's URL, DOI, title, or other information on the OA Button website to find free, legal, open access versions. Or install the Chrome or Firefox extension, then click on it from a paywalled article to initiate a search for an open version and, when available, instantly get free access.

How can I get ScienceDirect for free?

Share Link is a service that provides free access to your newly-published article on ScienceDirect for 50 days. You'll receive a customized link to your article, making it ideal for sharing with colleagues via email and your social networks.

How can I get papers for free?

The Top 21 Free Online Journal and Research Databases

CORE. CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of open access research. ...
ScienceOpen. ...
Directory of Open Access Journals. ...
Education Resources Information Center. ...
arXiv e-Print Archive. ...
Social Science Research Network. ...
Public Library of Science. ...
OpenDOAR.

Are open access journals free?

All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

How do I get PubMed articles for free?

Click on the PubMed Central link or a Publisher's link to access the full text of the article. Articles in PubMed Central are freely available. Articles on Publisher's websites are either freely available or can be accessed with a fee. Contact the specific publisher for questions about their site.

How do you get a full text journal article?

Full text of articles can be located through your institution's library and through some public libraries, or through individual subscriptions to journals or payment for individual articles.

Is Unpaywall safe?

Is Unpaywall legal? Yes! We harvest content from legal sources including repositories run by universities, governments, and scholarly societies, as well as open content hosted by publishers themselves. We do not harvest from sources of dubious legality like ResearchGate or Sci-Hub.

Is it free to publish in Elsevier?

Publishing gold open access with Elsevier means that millions of researchers globally will be able to find and read your work, completely free.

How do I get Scopus for free?

If you need to search for citations and an author's history of publication, you can use Elsevier Scopus “preview” or free edition: http://www.scopus.com You can either create a free user login, or simply search following the “author search” link at the top of the screen.

Is Elsevier a good journal?

There are very few fields that are completely dominated by Elsevier journals. ... That said, the good news is that you can still do a lot to actively work towards an Elsevier-free world even if you're unable or unwilling to completely part ways with the publisher.