FAQs

Unpaywall is a service that harvests open access content and makes it more easily accessible. Their website states, "We harvest Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories, and make it easy to find, track, and use."​

There are several Unpaywall options in Alma/Primo:

• Community Zone Collection
• Primo View

Note that Ex Libris used to recommend activating the Unpaywall API but the Community Zone activation is a better method to provide access to Unpaywall content.

Community Zone Collection:

You may activate the Unpaywall for CDI collection in the Alma CZ:

• "All CDI records with OA links from Unpaywall are flagged as Full text Available in your CDI searches and are included in the CDI filtered search.
• Unpaywall displays as a collection under the Collection facet.
• The Unpaywall OA link is used as an OA ‘Link in record’ full text link and uses the same link prioritization (in case of merged records) as described in Link Prioritization in the Merged Record:
  1. Link in Record links for subscribed content.
  2. Link resolver links from SFX/Alma.
  3. Link in Record links for Open Access content. This is where the Unpaywall OA links appear.
• Unpaywall records with OA links are included in CDI and updated twice a week. It may take some time for the Upaywall links to appear in CDI after the collection has been activated. For more information, see Managing Your Subscriptions and Free Content in CDI."

From Ex Libris's Integrating Unpaywall for Discovery

Primo VE View Settings:

To get links to show in your brief results, check the "Display Unpaywall Links" option on the General tab in your Primo view (Discovery>Display Configuration>Configure Views):

This setting will add links to Unpaywall full text to your brief results list. Note that this is part of Ex Libris's Quicklinks project. The documentation states, "Quicklinks complement links provided by Unpaywall. While Unpaywall focuses on content that is free to read for users, Quicklinks shows links to both free to read content and paywalled content. When the Quicklinks feature is enabled in Primo/VE, it takes precedence over Unpaywall links, and Unpaywall links are displayed only if there are no Quicklinks available."

Ex Libris Documentation: Primo VE User Interface/Quicklinks in Primo and Primo VE