Find open access articles

In order to find open access articles more easily, you can download and use add-ons in your browser, so-called plugins. You can also search directly in Open Access Repositories and in search engines.

List of examples of plugins / add-ons in browsers
List of open access repositories and search engines

Contact the author of the article or other researchers

Researchers may share articles with each other if permitted by agreement with the publisher concerned, so-called "scholarly sharing".

Open Access Button
By using the Open Access Button, you can send a request to the author of a locked article to make it openly available through an institutional repository.
Social plattforms
There are also social platforms for researchers, such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu