WorksheetsQuiz on Open Access Resources
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Browser extensions like Unpaywall work by:
Searching manually
Automatically detecting free versions
Writing emails to authors
Downloading pirated PDFs
Unpaywall adds which symbol to the browser?
Red lock
Yellow triangle
Green unlock padlock
Blue checkmark
Unpaywall only provides access to papers that are:
Paid journals
Pirated sources
Legal and open-access
Retracted
Open Access Button is especially useful when:
Writing citations
Unpaywall fails to find a paper
Annotating PDFs
Formatting references
What special feature does Open Access Button offer?
Citation formatting
Author email request
AI summarization
PDF annotation
Semantic Scholar is best described as:
A shadow library
A browser extension
An AI-based academic search engine
A reference manager
Semantic Scholar improves searches by using:
Only keywords
Contextual understanding
Paid subscriptions
Publisher access
ResearchRabbit is popularly called:
Google for books
Zotero for AI
Spotify for papers
Wikipedia for research
ResearchRabbit primarily helps researchers by:
Editing manuscripts
Mapping citation and author networks
Translating papers
Formatting bibliographies
SciSpace is mainly used to:
Find pirated PDFs
Explain complex research in simple language
Store references
Generate citations
Which repository is the world’s largest open-access collection?
DOAJ
Google Scholar
CORE
PubMed
In Google Scholar, free versions are often found by:
Clicking the journal logo
Using paid access
Looking for the [PDF] link or “All versions”
Emailing the publisher
DOAJ provides access to:
Paid journals
Preprints only
Peer-reviewed open-access journals
Conference slides
arXiv mainly hosts papers in:
Journalism and media
Law and management
Computer Science, Physics, and Mathematics
Medicine only
Papers on PubMed Central are maintained by:
Elsevier
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
WHO
Shadow libraries are considered:
Fully legal
Fully ethical
Legally and ethically risky
University-approved
Sci-Hub allows access to papers using:
Author name only
Journal issue number
URL or DOI
Keywords only
Anna’s Archive is best described as:
A citation manager
A single database
A meta-search engine for shadow libraries
An AI explainer
According to the recommended workflow, the FIRST step is:
Emailing the author
Using Sci-Hub
Searching Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar
Checking arXiv directly
The safest and legal last resort to get a paper is to:
Use Anna’s Archive
Use Sci-Hub
Email the author directly
Skip the reference
