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# Miscellaneous
## u:access at the University of Vienna
People with an account at the university of Vienna can use u:access to download papers from certain subscription only scientific journals. This can be done by looking for a given paper via u:find, or by directly using the u:access proxy. This is easily done by modifying the URL of the page of the paper: replace `.` by `-` in the domain part, and append `.uaccess.univie.ac.at`, still to the domain part. For example
greedy.journal.com/paper-123.456
becomes
greedy-journal-com.uaccess.univie.ac.at/paper-123.456
Once connected, you are redirected to the same page, but this time your are "logged in". If the university has a subscription for this journal, you can download the paper.
This is relatively easy but a bit tedious, so one can use this <a href='javascript:(function(){var u = String(window.location); var parts = u.split("/"); parts[2] = parts[2].replace(/\./g, "-") + ".uaccess.univie.ac.at"; window.location = parts.join("/");})()'>u:access</a> bookmarklet. Just drag it to your bookmarks bar and click on it when you are on the paper's page. The redirection should happen automatically.
Without u:access, one can still try the [unpaywall](https://unpaywall.org/) database and its Firefox extension.
## The web page
For those who are interested, this page is built with [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/). The code is [online](https://gitea.oknaj.eu/gjankowiak/homepage) and is available via git.