There is no single number, and nobody at UNI can quote you yours from the outside. UNI is running live experiments on how much free reading it gives away, and every visitor is assigned an allowance by those experiments. Two people sitting next to each other can be given different numbers on the same day, and both are working correctly.
What UNI will tell you is your own number, on the page itself.
Read your allowance off the journal page
Open any journal. Just above the article there is a small counter with an eye icon, reading something like 2 of 3 free views left today. That figure is worked out for you, in that request, by the same code that decides whether to let you in, so the counter and the gate cannot disagree.
The counter is shown only while you still have reads left. It is absent if you hold an active membership, and absent once the allowance is spent. Its absence is not a fault.
The parts that do not vary
- An active membership removes the limit completely, at every tier from weekly to institutional. Members have no reading cap of any kind.
- Journals are counted by the day. Your count clears at midnight UTC, which is not midnight where you are.
- Publications are counted by the calendar month and carry their own separate allowance.
- Your own journals never count against you, and you can always open your own work.
- A journal you were turned away from is not counted. Being stopped does not spend a read.
- Signed out, the count is kept against your network rather than against you. See Why a shared network runs out of free reads sooner.
The range in play
Because the allowance is experimental, the honest answer is a range rather than a figure. For journals it currently falls between one and five free reads a day when you are signed out, and between one and ten a day when you are signed in without a membership. Publications run between one and five a month. Where you sit in that range is fixed for you rather than changing day to day, and the counter is the only place it is stated.
What you see when it runs out
The journal opens, but the writing is not there. In its place you get one of two things:
- Signed in, no membership: a panel headed Your free access has expired today, with a link through to memberships.
- Signed out: a single line reading Sign in to read this journal article.
The title, cover image and author stay on the page, because what is withheld is the article body rather than the whole page. Signing in, taking a membership, or waiting for the day to roll over all restore it.