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Elsevier ScienceDirect access is broken again
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Although "Wikimedia Foundation" is listed as an organization in their login interface, I get the following error if I try to log into it:
"We cannot find a way to give you access via: Wikimedia Foundation."

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Hi Nosferattus - it looks like you should just be able to access content without signing in - can you test that?

@Samwalton9-WMF - It looks like I can read abstracts and snippets for free, but I have to pay US$24.95 to access full articles (without signing in): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790313001188.

@Samwalton9-WMF - It looks like I can read abstracts and snippets for free, but I have to pay US$24.95 to access full articles (without signing in): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790313001188.

I seem to be able to access that content: https://www-sciencedirect-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S1055790313001188

Are you clicking 'Access collection' in The Wikipedia Library (https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/)?

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I was able to get it to work! It seems you have to access the content from the specific domain name https://www-sciencedirect-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ rather than the regular https://www.sciencedirect.com/. I was trying to use an existing URL for the paper after going though the Wikipedia Library, but this didn't work. Thanks for helping me get it to work and sorry to waste your time!