Free Access to Research in the Polymer Literature

This page is an attempt to catalog places where one can access for free research articles that normally are subject to access after (substantial) payment. The emphasis will be on my areas of interest, namely polymers, their rheology, chemistry and physics and whatever else I find myself looking at a lot, but in many cases, this information below can be used for accessing articles outside of these fields. For instance, Elsevier and Wiley make the first issues of all their journals of the current year a "sample issue" available freely, so if you are interested in philosophy or pretty much anything else, you are in luck.

Disclaimers:

• This is an amateur effort, so I make no guarantees about the accuracy of the information, particularly since much of the access is temporary.
• If any information is inaccurate or if there are things I am missing, you can certainly send me an email (john dot spevacek at aspenresearch dot com) and I will be glad to correct my errors.
• In many cases, you may need to register with the sites to access these articles
• You can also read my post from a few months ago about my tips to accessing the literature.

I'm still trying to decide on the best format for presenting this information, given that it is often changing and my html coding skills (and time for this) are limited. For now, I'm putting the accesses with the shortest windows-of-access at the top and those with the longest at the bottom.

Last update: January 20, 2012

Accessible until Feb. 20 2012:

• How do soft particle glasses yield and flow near solid surfaces? Jyoti R. Seth, Clémentine Locatelli-Champagne, Fabrice Monti, Roger T. Bonnecaze and Michel Cloitre, Soft Matter 2012 Advance Article

Accessible for an unknown period of time

• All articles in new ACS journal, Macro Letters
• All articles in the RSC Themed Issue on Polymer Bioconjugates
  
  
• An isoindigo and dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]silole copolymer for polymer solar cells Romain Stalder, Caroline Grand, Jegadesan Subbiah, Franky So and John R. Reynolds, Polymer Chemistry, 2012, 3, 89-92


• Solution-processable triarylamine-based electroactive high performance polymers for anodically electrochromic applications Hung-Ju Yen and Guey-Sheng Liou, Polymer Chemistry, 2012, 3, 255-264


• Recent progress on phosphonate vinyl monomers and polymers therefore obtained by radical (co)polymerization G. David, C. Negrell-Guirao, F. Iftene, B. Boutevin and K. Chougrani Polymer Chemistry, 2012, 3, 265-274


• Synthesis of poly(p-phenylene vinylene) materials via the precursor routes Thomas Junkers, Joke Vandenbergh, Peter Adriaensens, Laurence Lutsen and Dirk Vanderzande Polymer Chemistry 2012, 3, 275-285


• Hyperbranched polyethylenes by chain walking polymerization: synthesis, properties, functionalization, and applications Zhongmin Dong and Zhibin Ye Polymer Chemistry, 2012, 3, 286-301


• Modular oxime functionalization of well-defined alkoxyamine-containing polymers Megan R. Hill, Soma Mukherjee, Philip J. Costanzo and Brent S. Sumerlin Polymer Chemistry, 2012, Advance Article


• Block copolymer conjugates prepared by sequentially grafting from proteins via RAFT Hongmei Li, Ming Li, Xiao Yu, Abhijeet P. Bapat and Brent S. Sumerlin Polymer Chemistry, 2011, 2, 1531-1535


• Protein conjugation of thermoresponsive amine-reactive polymers prepared by RAFT Hongmei Li, Abhijeet P. Bapat, Ming Li and Brent S. Sumerlin Polymer Chemistry, 2011, 2, 323-327


• Conjugation of RAFT-generated polymers to proteins by two consecutive thiol–ene reactions Ming Li, Priyadarsi De, Hongmei Li and Brent S. Sumerlin Polymer Chemistry, 2010, 1, 854-859

Accessible until approximately 1/1/2013:(These are entire issues of the journals, not just individual articles). From the American Chemical Society

• Chemistry of Materials
• Langmuir
• Macromolecules

From Elsevier

• Acta Biomaterialia, Volume 8, Issue 1
• Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Volume 163, Issue 1
• Biomaterials, Volume 33, Issue 1
• Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Volume 393
• Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, Volume 89
• Composite Structures, Volume 92, Issue 2
• International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesive,Volume 32
• International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Volume 47, Issue 1
• International Journal of Plasticity, Volume 28
• Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Volume 365, Issue 1
• Journal of Membrane Science, Volume 387-388
• Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Volume 167-168
• Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A:Chemistry, Volume 227, Issue 1
• Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C:Photochemistry Reviews, Volume 13, Issue 1
• Reactive and Functional Polymers, Volume 72, Issue 1
• Polymer, Volume 53, Issue 1
• Polymer Degradation and Stability, Volume 97, Issue 1
• Polymer Testing, Volume 31, Issue 1
• Progress in Materials Science, Volume 57, Issue 1
• Progress in Organic Coatings, Volume 73, Issue 1
• Progress in Polymer Science, Volume 37, Issue 1

From Wiley (I suspect that since many of these issues are from 2011, the linked issues will go behind the pay-per-view firewall in the near future as issue 1 for the current year (2012) is made available.)

• Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 23, Issue 1
• Advanced Materials, Volume 23, Issue 1
• Advances in Polymer Technology , Volume 29, Issue 1
• Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, Volume 296, Issue 1
• Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Volume 32, Issue 1
• Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Volume 119, Issue 1
• Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, Volume 49, Issue 1
• Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, Volume 49, Issue 1
• Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology, Volume 16, Issue 1
• Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, Volume 296, Issue 1
• Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Volume 32, Issue 1
• Macromolecular Reaction Engineering, Volume 5, Issue 1
• Macromolecular Symposia , Volume 299, Issue 1
• Plasma Processes and Polymers, Volume 8, Issue 1
• Polymer Composites, Volume 32, Issue 1
• Polymer Engineering and Science, Volume 51, Issue 1
• Polymer International, Volume 60, Issue 1
• Polymers for Advanced Technologies, Volume 22, Issue 1