FAQ Question
How do I access a PDF using my institutional affiliation?
Semantic Scholar provides access to full-text articles that your institution subscribes to through our Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) and LibKey integration via our institutional sign-in option. Currently, we work with Open Athens, eduGAIN, and InCommon to provide an institutional sign-in.
To gain access, under Create Account in the upper right corner, select Sign Up With Your Institution. If your institution is not yet supported, please let us know.
Once you're signed in to Semantic Scholar using your institutional email, find a paper you're interested in and click through to the paper page.
- If the publisher is a GetFTR partner and if your institution has a subscription, an Access PDF via Institution button is displayed below the abstract.
- If the publisher is not a GetFTR partner, an Access PDF via LibKey button is displayed, which leads you through the LibKey workflow.