Ten ways to find Open Access articles
Some tried and trusted ways to find openly accessible versions of articles. (Last updated: March 15, 2022) An article you need is behind a paywall on the journal's website? Don't fret – there are still some easy ways to find free, legal versions of the article you don't have access to. These tips will allow you to find non-paywalled articles that you can read and download without you or your institution having to pay any fee or subscription. This image was created by Scriberia for The Turing Way community and is used under a CC-BY licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3678226 . The articles you find may be: the publisher's version (the same one you'd find on the journal's website); the accepted version or postprint (the peer-reviewed version of the article that the journal has accepted for publication) – it's just as good as the publisher's version; or the preprint (usually published before peer-review). The version of the article that you'll be able t