If you are off-campus and find a link to an article, the publisher's page may ask you to pay for access. These browser plugins can help provide a quick way to get access through the library, or find open access copies.
Librarian's Recommendations
- Configure Google Scholar to have a "Check@UPEI" link
- Install the Proxy Bookmarklet
List of Browser Extensions and tools
- Proxy Bookmarklet - all browsers - One button to log into the library's proxy server and reload the current page. Provides access to UPEI-licensed articles and books, saving you the trouble of searching through the library website. Not a plugin - does not collect any data.
- Unpaywall - Chrome and Firefox - Find an open access copy of this article in an Institutional Repository server or in a PrePrint server. Free and legal. Articles must have a DOI.
- GetFTR (Get Full Text Research) - similar to Unpaywall, but will also tell you if UPEI has that item licensed, if you configure UPEI in the plugin after installing it (click on it in the extensions list, and go to the Institutions setting)
- EBSCO Passport Extension - Chrome, Edge - leverages the fact that UPEI's licensed online content is known to EBSCO to offer a button next to DOIs in most web pages to quickly get you to the full text if UPEI has that item. It will not appear if the DOI is for a book/chapter and we have only the print version.
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