Connect Unpaywall to Your AI Agent

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.

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Try a Unpaywall Task

Copy a prompt into your agent with the oo Skill installed. Add your page links and source notes before running it.

oo Skill Unpaywall

Check a Paper’s Open Access Locations

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

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

Discover Papers by Title

Find papers by title text and organize their bibliographic metadata.

/oo Unpaywall: Search article titles for [query] and summarize the matching metadata.

Start Working with Unpaywall

  1. Install OOMOL

    Set up oo CLI and the oo Skill in your agent.

    Install OOMOL →
  2. Connect Unpaywall

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

    Connect Unpaywall →
  3. Give Your Agent a Task

    Use /oo with the pages to read, the changes to make, and where to save the result.

    Connection Guide →

Choose Your Agent

  • A contact email and a DOI or paper-title query.
  • Results describe open-access locations and article metadata; they do not download or extract a paper’s full text.

Unpaywall Tools

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

Retrieve Unpaywall open-access metadata for one DOI.

unpaywall.get_doi

Search Articles

Search Unpaywall articles by title text.

unpaywall.search_articles

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.

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