linkinghub.elsevier.com Access with Elsevier Article Locator

linkinghub.elsevier.com Elsevier Article Locator is a free browser extension and web service that instantly routes you to the full-text of any Elsevier paper you discover online. After selecting the sites your institution subscribes to, the tool runs in the background, detects DOIs on PubMed, Google Scholar, Twitter, or news pages, and tests multiple access paths in milliseconds.

The locator first queries your library’s link resolver; if authentication succeeds, it drops you straight into the PDF on ScienceDirect or a partner platform. If the article is open access on SSRN, PMC, or an institutional repository, it serves that version instead, ensuring you stay within copyright limits. A color-coded icon shows green for immediate access, orange for embargoed green-OA, and gray for paywalled content, so you know your options before clicking.

Setup takes one minute: install the plug-in, choose your university from the dropdown, and log in through your standard proxy credentials. Thereafter the tool works silently, eliminating copy-paste searches, duplicate inter-library-loan requests, and the frustration of hitting a $35 paywall during literature reviews.

Librarians benefit from built-in analytics that report which articles users reach and which fail, supplying concrete data for subscription renewal decisions. Researchers save an average of 90 seconds per paper, a gain that compounds across systematic reviews involving hundreds of citations.