How to Remove Paywalls from Scientific Journals
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
Much of the science behind journal paywalls is legally free somewhere: the free Unpaywall extension shows a tab on a paper's page when a legal free copy exists, Google Scholar's "All versions" link often finds the author's own PDF, and preprint servers such as arXiv hold many papers before publication. For medical and life sciences, PubMed Central has millions of free full texts. Authors can usually send you a copy if you email them, and your library's interlibrary loan can fetch the rest.
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