Thursday, 9 February 2017

publications - How to get academic search engines only search in open access journals?



Sometimes I work from home, and for security reasons it is not possible to connect to the campus computers. I use Google Scholar for finding papers and so, but from home, most of the journals can not be accessed.


Is it there some way in which Google Scholar or another academic search engine searches only in open access journals?


PS1: There is no way in which I can access my campus, really.


PS2: OK, I will give more details, since it seems that PS1 is not clear enough. I am working with other collaborators that are not affiliated to any University. I could do VPN and similar but I can not pass them such information, or any other way of passwords or access to the campus, etc. We can only work with the open access papers they find. If the interesting papers are under a paywall, then they are useless for us. I hope this clarifies my questions, and thank everybody for the useful comments.



Answer



This exact question has been asked at Webapps Stack Exchange:


Is there a way to configure Google Scholar to only show results where the document is freely available?


Quoting from the (unaccepted) answer there:



Unfortunately there isn't an option to restrict results like that in Google Scholar (I appreciate the idea, running into paywalls is very frustrating). I guess the argument could be made that you are limiting the articles/knowledge you could be exposed to be only looking at the free things. That and Google's recognition of what is accessible isn't 100%.




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