{
  "id": 18379083,
  "title": "How to find a free PDF of a scientific article from its DOI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/como-encontrar-el-pdf-gratuito-de-un-articulo-cientifico-a-partir-de",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-05T21:40:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/bestaitools-es/como-encontrar-el-pdf-gratuito-de-un-articulo-cientifico-a-partir-de-su-doi-4ge3"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "A tool has been developed to help find free and legal copies of academic articles. It uses public APIs, such as OpenAlex, to locate articles and check for available PDFs. The tool was tested with two articles, a 2024 meta-analysis by Hartanto et al. (DOI: 10.1037/tmb0000123) and a 2017 study by Ward et al. (DOI: 10.1086/691462). For the meta-analysis, the tool found a 1.6 MB PDF in a university repository, but for the other article, it was unable to find a free PDF. The tool checks the first five bytes of a downloaded file to ensure it is a PDF.",
  "summary": "You have a DOI, the publisher's page asks you to log in and you only need to read the methods section. Very often there is a free and legal copy somewhere: the author's university repository, a preprint, PubMed Central. Searching for it manually requires trying four or five websites. Doing it from code requires a handful of public APIs called in a reasonable order. The order that…",
  "key_points": [
    "Automate process using Paper Space in osFoundry desktop application to test each source for PDF",
    "OpenAlex can query article locations and determine if a direct PDF exists for given DOIs"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}