Instructions
for making a Green Table of Contents web page with Word, October 2020
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, Michèle Breton, Amrita
Ray Chaudhuri
Pages
35-52
5) Go back to Elsevier’s 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. (A shortcut here is Ctrl K to open
the box
for inserting link and then Ctrl V to save the link )
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.
(Ctrl K, Ctrl V will do this)
9) If you find no open access copy of the paper, search
for the article name
and “ResearchGate”. Usually, ResearchGate will have a page with a
button that lets you request a copy of the article
From the
author. If there is such a link,
replace the words Link to Preprint with Request Copy from author via
ResearchGate
and link
these words to the ResearchGate page for this article. If there is no ResearchGate page for the
paper,
replace
the words Insert Link with No free copy found.
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 author’s 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.