Open Access Paper Discovery with Unpaywall and AI

Have a paper you want to read? Give the assistant its DOI to check available open-access locations, or a title query to find matching articles.

What to Ask Leina to Do with Unpaywall

Copy a prompt, add your details, and send it to Leina in your connected team chat.

Retrieve a DOI’s open-access status and available repository or publisher locations.

Look up DOI [doi] and explain its open-access status and available locations.

Find papers by title text and organize their bibliographic metadata.

Search article titles for [query] and summarize the matching metadata.

Get Started with Unpaywall

  1. Connect Your Account

    Provide your contact email (email); no Unpaywall account or API key is required.

  2. Try a Task

    Tell Leina what you need in your team chat. Include the source, destination, and expected result.

    Set Up Leina in Your Chat →
  3. Check the Result

    Review the result and any changes in the connected app.

Supported Unpaywall Capabilities

Unpaywall indexes open-access information for scholarly articles. The integration returns bibliographic records and access-location metadata that an assistant can compare and explain.

Check a Paper’s Open Access Locations

Retrieve Unpaywall open-access metadata for one DOI.

Discover Papers by Title

Search Unpaywall articles by title text.

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  • Get Doi
  • Search Articles

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Frequently Asked Questions

What can AI help me do with Unpaywall?

Ask for the open-access status and locations of a known DOI, or a shortlist of articles matching title text. These results describe papers rather than extracting their full text.

What should I know before using Unpaywall results?

Results describe open-access locations and article metadata; they do not download or extract a paper’s full text.

What do I need to connect Unpaywall?

Provide a contact email for Unpaywall to identify API requests. You do not need an Unpaywall account or an API key.

Your AI employee for Unpaywall

Tell Leina what you need in your team chat. Include the source, destination, and expected result.