Research Management: Zotero Improves PDF Retrieval with Unpaywall Integration to Retrieve Open Access Versions of Articles

Making online research easier, faster. Here’s a NEW example.
From Zotero:

As an organization dedicated to developing free and open-source research tools, we care deeply about open access to scholarship. With the latest version of Zotero, we’re excited to make it easier than ever to find PDFs for the items in your Zotero library.
While Zotero has always been able to download PDFs automatically as you save items from the web, these PDFs are often behind publisher paywalls, putting them out of reach of many people.
Enter Unpaywall, a database of legal, full-text articles hosted by publishers and repositories around the world. Starting in Zotero 5.0.56, if you save an item from a webpage where Zotero can’t find or access a PDF, Zotero will automatically search for an open-access PDF using data from Unpaywall.
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Zotero can also now take better advantage of PDFs available via institutional subscriptions. When you use “Add Item by Identifier” or “Find Available PDF”, Zotero will load the page associated with the item’s DOI or URL and try to find a PDF to download before looking for OA copies. This will work if you have direct or VPN-based access to the PDF. If you use a web-based proxy, only open-access PDFs will be automatically retrieved using this new functionality, but you can continue to save items with gated PDFs from the browser using the Zotero Connector.

Learn More, Read the Complete Blog Post
See Also: Europe PMC Integrates with Unpaywall (April 2018)
See Also: Have You Seen/Used ZoteroBib? (A Web-based Tool from the Zotero Team)
Web-based version of Zotero for bibliography creation. It’s free, no registration required. 

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