Summon: Unpaywall Database
- Product: Summon
Integrating Unpaywall for Discovery
Unpaywall is a database of Open Access (OA) content that maintains OA links to full text articles and OA resources. For more information about Unpaywall, see https://unpaywall.org/.
The discovery of Unpaywall's OA content requires you to subscribe to its database in the Client Center. This ensures the following:
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All CDI records with OA links from Unpaywall are marked as OA and appear under the Open Access facet.
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Indexed Unpaywall links are returned by CDI as regular IEDL links and are prioritized using standard linking logic.
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Unpaywall links also appear as a "Link to PDF" link in Summon search results when there are no available Quick Links for the full text.
Unpaywall's content is updated twice a week in CDI.
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Open the Database Management page in the Client Center.
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Search for the Unpaywall database.
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Select Edit Status to edit the database's status.
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Select the Edit field for Unpaywall, select the Subscribed status, and then select Save to apply the change to the database's status.
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Select the link for the Unpaywall database name to open the database's details.
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Select Edit to allow customization of the database.
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Select the Summon checkbox under the Display In field to allow the database's content to appear in Summon.
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Select Save.