Bit niche, perhaps... I am looking to read around journal articles on thyroid disorder research (and similar). Can anyone recommend the best route in to get access to articles that are behind a paywall, please? Which supplier is best (i.e. for a good range of relevant journals), or are there libraries you can join and get access to online articles?
In a previous role I was rather spoilt and had access via the university library so never had to think about it - and that was business research anyway! Any advice would be gratefully received.
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If you're near London the British Library is best although not at the moment because they were attacked by ransomware and it's taking a long time to recover.
I find using Europe PMC (PubMed Central) helps a lot.
In the attached screenshot, you can see (just about!) that the papers found have Free full text in Europe PMC (in blue). That means, you do not have to traipse off to other sites. Therefore often quicker and easier. And you know straight-away - as soon as you see the search results. Which avoids wasting time chasing through only later to find they are paywalled.
This doesn't mean you can access paywalled papers as such. But, sometimes, actually getting from the usual USA PubMed to a paper puts up lots of barriers. I've sometimes known a paper exists, known it is open access, but trying to get hold of it, the journal's paywall stops me finding it!
And there are occasionally routes to access papers which are not shown.
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