{"id":32408,"date":"2022-05-02T13:57:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/?page_id=32408"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:57:08","slug":"finding-oa-articles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/scholarly-communication\/finding-oa-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding OA Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<p>A growing body of scholarship is becoming openly accessible \u2013 in other words, available free, immediately, and online without a paywall. This guide provides tips to help you find open access versions of articles and other scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a0\">Browser Extensions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">LibKey Nomad:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thirdiron.com\/downloadnomad\/\">https:\/\/thirdiron.com\/downloadnomad\/<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>LibKey Nomad is a browser extension you can install to enable library links to appear on external websites. This allows you to more easily access content via library subscriptions or request items from interlibrary loan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>LibKey Nomad includes Unpaywall data to deliver Open Access versions when subscribed options are not available.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.uwm.edu\/libguidesrepository\/libkey\">brief LibGuide about LibKey Nomad.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libkey.io\/libraries\/2475\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/libkey.io\/libraries\/2475\">LibKey.io<\/a> is a look-up for articles by DOI (Digital Object Identifier) or PMID (PubMed Identifier). It provides options to \u201cDownload PDF\u201d or follow the \u201cArticle Link\u201d available via the 51ÁÔÆæ Libraries subscriptions and open access peer-reviewed manuscripts via Unpaywall; and to \u201cView article in context\u201d of the journal issue via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/browzine.com\/libraries\/2475\">BrowZine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Open Access Button:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openaccessbutton.org\/\">https:\/\/openaccessbutton.org\/<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Open Access button searches across \u201call of the aggregated repositories in the world, hybrid articles, open access journals, and those on authors\u2019 personal pages.\u201d Supported by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the OA Button builds on the work of librarians, researchers, and developers to provide an easy and legal strategy for locating OA research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Search for articles directly at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openaccessbutton.org\/\">https:\/\/openaccessbutton.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Open Access Button browser extension, available free for Chrome and Firefox, helps you to find open access articles as part of your regular search. When you are viewing an article with a paywall, click the OA icon in your navigation bar to see if an open version is available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>More on using browser extensions to find OA research:<br>Chawla, D. (2017). Need a paper? Get a plug-in.&nbsp;<em>Nature<\/em>, 551, 399-400.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-017-05922-9\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-017-05922-9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a1\">Open repositories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Searching <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/schhp?hl=en\">Google Scholar<\/a> may find the full text from well-indexed repositories. From its record, click &#8220;All versions&#8221; link to see access options including open access versions.       <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open repositories host articles and other research outputs, usually deposited by the authors. The version available in the repository is often a pre-print \u2013 the version submitted by the author(s) prior to peer review. Repositories may be hosted by academic institutions, or they may be disciplinary in nature. Examples include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/mindsuw-milwaukee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Minds@UW Milwaukee<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>articles, student papers, electronic theses and dissertations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/\">PubMed Central<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>biomedical and life sciences journal literature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/\">arXiv<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/core.ac.uk\/\">CORE<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>aggregates papers from institutional and subject repositories; calls itself \u201cThe world\u2019s largest collection of open access research papers\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oad.simmons.edu\/oadwiki\/Disciplinary_repositories\">Open Access Directory: Disciplinary repositories<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>organized by subject, a frequently updated list of OA disciplinary repositories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a2\">Contact the author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In most cases, authors are able to share their own publications on a one-on-one basis. Contact the author and ask for a copy: The author\u2019s name and institution are usually shown on the preview page of the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some authors are open to receiving requests for articles via social networking sites for researchers, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Academia.edu<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ResearchGate<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mendeley.com\/?interaction_required=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mendeley<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hcommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Knowledge Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"parent":32390,"menu_order":76,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-32408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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