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This may or may not be free to access, but will give you a place to start. If the article does not appear free to access, you may still be able to find the article elsewhere, whether online or through a nearby library. Consider the resources in the following points as further guides to accessing such articles.</li> <li>Install the <a href="/wiki/Unpaywall" class="mw-redirect" title="Unpaywall">Unpaywall</a> extension on your browser: you will have a 50% chance of finding the full text in open access, wherever you found it.</li> <li>Search for the article title on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com">Google Scholar</a>. If the initial result is behind a paywall, try clicking on the "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/newmanreference/files/2014/07/Google-Scholar-finding-other-versions-of-the-article-record.png">All X versions</a>" link - this will tell you if other databases include this article, and may help you find an open version. From here, you may be able to find additional sources on similar topics by clicking either the "Related Articles" or "Cited By" links appearing under most article's link in the results. Articles found using these links and may provide you with information to expand your search.</li> <li>Use <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.archive.org/">Internet Archive scholar</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://core.ac.uk/">CORE</a> or another open-access <a href="/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines" title="List of academic databases and search engines">search engine</a> to look for an open version of the article.</li> <li>Using either the DOI, Google Scholar, or the journal's website, find out what databases index the article in full text. You can then see if either your local library or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TWL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TWL">the Wikipedia Library</a> provides access to these databases.</li> <li>Use <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcat.org/">WorldCat</a> to see if your local library has a physical version of the journal.</li> <li>Request the article or the journal through your library's <a href="/wiki/Interlibrary_loan" title="Interlibrary loan">interlibrary loan</a> service, if available.</li> <li>Look through the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Journal_sources" title="Wikipedia:Journal sources">journals sources page</a> for more ideas on how to find the article.</li> <li>Reach out to the author(s) of the research paper by email and ask them for a copy.</li></ul></dd></dl> <p>Note that websites like <a href="/wiki/Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub">Sci-Hub</a> offer free and direct access to academic journal articles, but there are legal questions about their use and neither the Wikimedia Foundation nor the Wikipedia community endorses them. </p> <div id="Book" style="font-size:120%; margin-bottom:5px; text-align:left; padding-right:5%; line-height:150%; color:#222; padding-left:5px;width:80%"><b>Books</b><br/> </div> <dl><dd><ul><li>If the citation includes an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ISBN" title="Wikipedia:ISBN">ISBN</a>, click on it to locate <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Book_sources#Online_text" title="Wikipedia:Book sources">online versions</a> of the book, or to find it through <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Book_sources#Online_databases" title="Wikipedia:Book sources">online databases</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Book_sources#Libraries" title="Wikipedia:Book sources">local or national libraries</a>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com">Google Books</a> will often give access to a few pages or a snippet view.</li> <li>See if <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Book_sources#Find_other_editions" title="Wikipedia:Book sources">other editions</a> are available (although the content or pagination may differ).</li> <li>Use <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcat.org/">WorldCat</a> to see if your local library has a physical version of the book.</li> <li>Request the book through your library's <a href="/wiki/Interlibrary_loan" title="Interlibrary loan">interlibrary loan</a> service, if available.</li> <li>Leverage your contacts with people studying or working in higher education facilities to get access of master's and doctoral theses from those institutions.</li> <li>If you only need a chapter in a collective work or fragments of a research thesis, reach out to the author(s) of the work by email and ask them for a copy.</li></ul></dd></dl> <p>Note that websites like <a href="/wiki/Library_Genesis" title="Library Genesis">Library Genesis</a> offer free and direct access to books, but there are legal questions about their use and neither the Wikimedia Foundation nor the Wikipedia community endorses them. </p> <div id="Newspaper" style="font-size:120%; margin-bottom:5px; text-align:left; padding-right:5%; line-height:150%; color:#222; padding-left:5px;width:80%"><b>Newspaper articles</b><br/> </div> <dl><dd><ul><li>If possible, search a quote from the article to see if it has been republished elsewhere.</li> <li>Search <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/periodicals">thousands of periodicals</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>.</li> <li>Search for periodical titles in the Wikipedia Library database index at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/A%E2%80%93Z" title="Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/A–Z">The Wikipedia Library/A–Z</a></li> <li>Check the list of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives" title="Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives">online newspaper archives</a> (some of which are free to access) or the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_English_newspaper_sources" title="Wikipedia:Free English newspaper sources">list of free English newspaper sources</a>. There are also other digitized-newspaper archives, particularly for older articles, that may be available.</li> <li>See if either your local library or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TWL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TWL">TWL</a> provides access to the newspaper or to a database that indexes it in full text.</li> <li>If this is an online newspaper and you see a paywall, try archiving the webpage with the article you look for in <a href="/wiki/Archive.today" title="Archive.today">archive.today</a> or in the Internet Archive.</li> <li>See if an archived version of the article is available via a search feature on the newspaper's website.</li> <li>Use <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldcat.org/">WorldCat</a> to see if your local library has a physical (print or <a href="/wiki/Microfilm" class="mw-redirect" title="Microfilm">microfilm</a>) version of the newspaper issue containing the article.</li> <li>Request the article or the newspaper through your library's <a href="/wiki/Interlibrary_loan" title="Interlibrary loan">interlibrary loan</a> service, if available.</li></ul></dd></dl> <div id="More" style="font-size:120%; margin-bottom:5px; text-align:left; padding-right:5%; line-height:150%; color:#222; padding-left:5px;width:80%"><b>Get help on-wiki</b><br/> </div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1256334245">.mw-parser-output .ivmbox{margin-bottom:1em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-warning-subtle,#fdf2d5);padding:0.5em;display:flex;align-items:center}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .ivmbox[style*="background"]{background-color:var(--background-color-warning-subtle,ivory)!important;color:inherit}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .ivmbox[style*="background"]{background-color:var(--background-color-warning-subtle,ivory)!important;color:inherit}}.mw-parser-output .ivmbox-image{padding-left:1px;padding-right:0.5em;max-width:100px;flex:1 0 25px}.mw-parser-output .ivmbox-text{padding:0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .ivmbox-text>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .ivmbox-text>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="ivmbox" style="background-color: #E5F8FF;"> <div class="ivmbox-image" style=""><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Information_icon4.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/25px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/38px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/50px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620"/></a></span></div> <div class="ivmbox-text"> <p><b>NOTE. 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