NOT VIA A LIBRARY …

(work in progress & development 😉

1. Use alternative ways to request your articles/books

2. Use browser extentions to help you

3. Search “alternative” (free) sources

1.Use alternative ways to request your articles/books

• Via Twitter: use #icanhazpdf
• Via networks or applications for/by scientist
  • ResearchGate
  • Academia,
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • ReadCube
  • Reddir r/SCHOLAR
• Via colleagues
• Via the author

2.Use “Browser extentions” to personalise your browser

• Kopernio
• Unpaywall
• Open Access Button
• Google Scholar Button
• LazyScholar

3.Search “alternative” (free) sources

Explore and pick your favourites “Resources”

• BASE
• CORE
• Narcis
• OSF Preprints
• Directory of Open Access Journals ( DOAJ)
• 1Finder (Free ed.)
• Dimensions (Free ed.)
• Science Open
• OpenDOAR
• Zenodo
• bioRxiv
• arXiv
• Humanities Commons
• PubMedCentral
• SocArXiv