Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly articles

Re:Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly ... by sgfgross on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:00AM (#31282156)

https://oa.mg/ is another initiative that indexes over 200 million papers and lets you know if a paper is open or not. They tend to have download links to a rather large amount of papers.

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Re:Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly ... by greggsy on Friday May 06, 2022 @10:00AM (#31285169)

It would be great to see Zotero integrate these databases into a PDF search feature, or a plug-in

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Re:Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly ... by dstillman on Friday May 06, 2022 @12:55PM (#31287360)

Zotero has had Unpaywall integration since 2018:

https://www.zotero.org/blog/improved-pdf-retrieval-with-unpa...

(Disclosure: Zotero dev)

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Re:Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly ... by greggsy on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:14PM (#31290947)

I… wow. Thank you.

Also: thank you for building a tool that actually works. I used it first in 2010, then switched to EndNote for better web integration, but I’m back to Zotero now that there’s a Safari add on. The PDF functionality in 5.0 has made apps like Notability and Goodnotes for the seemingly trivial task of managing and marking up highlights completely redundant.

It’s one of those OSS applications that genuinely works well and can be approachable to everyday people without feeling like a half-baked product.

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