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.
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.