PaywallRemover guides
Read with better evidence
Practical guides to public archives, article readers, research papers and library access. Based on documented checks, with limits explained.
How to judge an archived article
Check URL identity, capture dates and missing content before relying on an archived article, with dated observations from our own tests.
What a clean reader can and cannot recover
Understand delivered HTML, reader confidence, cookie handoffs and practical checks for incomplete articles.
Find an open research copy and check its version
Use a DOI, interpret OpenAlex, Europe PMC and arXiv results, and check the identity, version, and completeness of a research paper before citing it.
Read newspaper articles through a library
A practical workflow for finding the right newspaper edition, using library databases, and checking that a result is the story you wanted.