Find Open Access Articles for free

If you are looking for open access journal articles, try out these simple and effective tools.

Unpaywall

Download the free browser extension for Firefox or Chrome.  When you search for articles in databases or in Google Scholar, click on the article title. When an Open Access version of an article is available from a publisher, repository or other legitimate source, a green padlock icon appears on the right side.

 Open Access Button

The Open Access Button is a free tool that allows you to find free, legal articles with just a click. You can search by article title, URL, DOI or citation to locate an open access version of a known article you are trying to locate.

Open Access App in the Find It Discovery Service

We have added an Open Access (Unpaywall) app to our Find it Discovery Service. Click on it to retrieve an Open Access version of an article.  See the example below.

Updated by Patti Wilson, April 27, 2020

Changes to Kanopy

Kanopy is a streaming video collection with a mix of movie, documentary and educational titles. Once a title has been viewed 4 times, it triggers a one year lease for $150. Starting in January 2020, we have curated our collection to a narrower group of titles. Kanopy streaming videos will be available to view from Media Education Foundation, Criterion Collection, Psychotherapy.net and the Documentaries subject package. All title requests outside these collections will be mediated by UFV Library staff. Mediated requests will only be accepted from UFV faculty for course purposes.

For questions, please contact Patti Wilson at loc. 4277.

Example of mediated request form: