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DEPRECATED (2026-09-01) — sustech.papers is unmaintained and slated for removal. It is not part of the webui/Electron surface. For paper search/fetch, prefer maintained tooling (scholarly, the OpenAlex API, paper-downloaders).

SUSTech paper search and off-campus access.

Q&A

Can sustech.papers fetch subscribed full-text papers via API off-campus?

No. sustech.papers only supports off-campus login for the databases that federate via Shibboleth — WoS, RSC, CNKI — by going through CARSI → SUSTech CAS. Most publisher sites have strict bot protection: ACS / RSC / Wiley / IEEE are behind Cloudflare; SciVal / Scopus / Springer are similar. Direct programmatic access to those is not viable.

For the databases that do work off-campus, a real browser (Playwright) handles the Shibboleth WAYF + IdP consent flow and lands you on the publisher landing page; the actual full-text download still happens at human reading speed in that session. There is no headless / agent-level mass-fetch path for subscribed content.

I'm not adding scraping to sustech.papers. Instead, there is a separate browser plugin — sustech_quickread — for off-campus use. It automates the Shibboleth WAYF / CAS / IdP consent dance and stores the session cookies, so you click once instead of going through six redirects each visit.

Library ToS reminder. SUSTech Library's 《电子资源使用规定》 explicitly prohibits:

  • Using network tools to batch-download library e-resources.
  • Downloading faster than normal reading speed across multiple papers.
  • Downloading whole journal issues or volumes.
  • Setting up private proxies or VPNs to share off-campus access.

So: using the API to fetch paper data off-campus is not a good idea. For Open Access content there are plenty of "Vibe Research" Skills on Clawhub that can pull OA articles directly.