New Instructions for making a Green Table of
Contents web page with Word.
(These instructions will make use of the Unpaywall
app, which can find some
of the green copies , but far from all of them. If you prefer
to use the old procedure without Unpaywall,
that is ok. Unpaywall
may save you a little time.)
0) Before you start. If you are using either Firefox or
Chrome as a browser, Go to the Unpaywall website and
download the Unpaywall
Extension.
1) Google the Elsevier journal you want to work
on. Click View Articles, then All Issues.
2) Choose the issue you want to work on. Copy the
entire Table of Contents page.
3) Open a blank page in MS Word. Use Paste Special and
then Unformatted text to
paste your table of contents into the Word file.
4) Label the page with the journal title and month along
with the words
Green Table of Contents
Clean up the page to leave only the journal title, author(s) and pages and add a line
Link to preprint.
Mergers in nonrenewable resource oligopolies and environmental
policies
Hassan Benchekroun, Michle Breton,
Amrita Ray Chaudhuri
Pages 35-52
5) Go back to Elseviers Table
of Contents for your issue. Click
on the title of the
first article in the
issue. You will see a
copy of the abstract for the paper. If you have installed Unpaywall,
then
on the right side of the
screen, you will see either a small green open padlock, or a small gray
closed
padlock.
6) If there is a green padlock,
click it and an open access copy should appear.
Click on the bar at the top of the screen to see the link to that
open access copy. Copy that link.
Then go back to your Word file copy of the TOC, select the words Link
to Preprint corresponding
to that article.
Then from the Word menu at the top, go to Insert and then choose
Hyperlink.
Now copy the link that you have saved into the box that appears and
write the letters
UP on
your
Word page, just after the words Link
to preprint.
7) When you have finished Step 6
if there is a green padlock, or if the
article has a grey padlock, look for the
little arrow below the abstract that sends you to the next article. Repeat this process until you
reach the
end of the table of contents.
8) Now you need to take care of the articles with gray
padlocks. Go to your Word document,
and for each
article that does not yet have a link, use Google to search for an
ungated copy of that article.
If you find a likely candidate, try to open it. If a copy of the article opens, copy the
text link .
Then in your
Word file select the text Link to preprint for that
article. Go to Insert then Hyperlink,
and
copy the link into the box that appears.
9) If you find no open access
copy of the paper, replace
the words Link to preprint
with Green Copy not found
written in boldface.
10) Save your Word
file as an html file and send it to me. I will link it to the mother
page.
Some hints: Google will show often show you several
links that correspond to the journal title.
Of course the sciencedirect link
does no good, since that is gated, except in the rare occasions where
the author has paid to make the article open
access. Links to university or other public archives are good
prospects, probably a little more reliable than authors own web
page. Links to paper through NBER
work well.
Links through SSRN may work if nothing else is available. I prefer links to other archives for two
reasons.
A) The SSRN link takes you to
a page where you are offered the option of registering with SSRN or
alternatively
Download without registering.
If you choose Download without registering, you need to prove that you
are not
a robot. This is a bit
tedious and disconcerting.
B) SSRN is now owned by
Elsevier. At some point, they may make this link even harder to
use.
A few SSRN downloads require a payment. If they do, then do not use this
link even if nothing else can be found.
Repec usually does not have links to ungated copies,
though if all else fails you can try them.
In all cases, check whether you can actually download the
file from the link you have found. Some
archives simply link back to the paywalled Elsevier location.