Listen to Oxford Academic
Turn any academic.oup.com article into audio. Open the paper in Chrome, click CastReader, and listen through the abstract and body — with paragraph highlighting. Works across all Oxford University Press journals.
Why Listen to Oxford Academic with CastReader?
The OUP platform consolidates 500+ journals under one rendering.
Full Portfolio
500+ OUP Journals
Brain, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Oxford Economic Papers, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, JSAE, The British Journal of Criminology — OUP publishes across humanities, social sciences, medicine, and life sciences. One extractor for the whole platform.
Clean Audio
Skips Tombstone and Metrics Chrome
Oxford Academic article pages include a 'tombstone' header with publisher metadata, affiliation blocks, supplement indicators, and metrics widgets. CastReader reads only the title, abstract, and main text — so the audio starts at the actual paper.
OA-Aware
Full Text for Open Access Articles
Many OUP journals have open-access content, and Nucleic Acids Research is 100% gold OA. CastReader reads the full text when your browser has it. For subscription-locked articles only the abstract is in the DOM, and that's all we read.
100% Free
Unlimited Research Listening
No signup, no quota. Perfect for bioinformaticians following NAR database issues, economists reading QJE, or humanities scholars working through OUP's deep journal catalog.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything about listening to Oxford Academic with CastReader
How do I listen to an Oxford Academic article?
Open the article on academic.oup.com in Chrome (URLs look like /brain/article/146/5/1234/6789012 or /nar/article/51/D1/D123/6789012). Click the CastReader icon. It reads title → abstract → main text.
Which OUP journals are supported?
All journals on academic.oup.com. That includes Brain, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research, Molecular Biology and Evolution, QJE, American Journal of Epidemiology, The Review of Financial Studies, and 500+ others. The platform is unified, so one extractor covers the catalog.
What about Nucleic Acids Research?
NAR is 100% gold open access. Every article and every database paper in the NAR Database Issue reads end-to-end. This is one of the cleanest sources of biomedical audio content.
What about paywalled OUP articles?
CastReader reads what your browser rendered. Institutional subscribers see full text and we read it. Non-subscribers see the abstract and that's what gets read. Open-access articles always read in full regardless of subscription.
What about humanities journals like ELH or The Review of English Studies?
Yes. Humanities journals on OUP render the same way as life-science journals. Essays of 8–15k words read cleanly — which is exactly the scale where audio is better than visual reading.
What about supplementary materials?
Supplements on OUP are separate downloads (PDF supplements, data files) and not in the main article DOM. CastReader reads the main article body including figure and table captions.
Can I adjust reading speed?
Yes. 0.5x through 3x. The floating player persists across tab switches and supports segment-level skip.
Is it free? Any limits?
Completely free with no page or character limits. No account needed. CastReader is a free browser extension for Chrome and Edge.
Start Listening to Oxford Academic
Completely free. No signup. No limits. Install CastReader and open any OUP article.