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Free abstracts for almost every article, full text through your institution, open access for everyone, and pay-per-view for individuals — all resolved instantly by a single entitlement engine.

Free abstracts

Free

For everyone, no account needed

  • Metadata & abstracts for ~all articles
  • Full search & faceting
  • Citation export
  • Abstract-level AI reasoning
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Most institutions

Institutional subscription

Custom / "Big Deal"

Universities & research centers

  • Full text across bundled collections
  • IP recognition, OpenAthens, Shibboleth, SAML
  • EZproxy compatible
  • COUNTER 5 + SUSHI reporting
  • Full AI & Compare Experiments
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Open access

Free to read

APC paid by author or agreement

  • Free worldwide, CC-BY / CC-BY-NC
  • Fully OA & hybrid journals
  • Transformative agreements cover APCs
  • Waivers & discounts available
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Pay-per-view

$39.95 / article

Individuals, no subscription

  • Buy or rent (24h) single articles
  • Book chapters & reference entries
  • Stripe + Razorpay, multi-currency
  • Token bundles for frequent buyers
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The entitlement engine

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For any reader and any piece of content, a single service returns the access level and the reason — consistently across the reader, AI, downloads, and APIs, in under 300 ms.

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Active subscriptions & collections
Open-access status of the item
Past purchases & token balance
Transformative agreements

Federated & standards-based access

OpenAthens
Shibboleth
SAML 2.0
EZproxy
IP recognition
ORCID
COUNTER 5
SUSHI

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

Often covered in full by your institution's transformative agreement. Waivers available for eligible countries.

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