UW Off-Campus Reading is a Chrome extension developed by Thomas Schweizer. It falls under the Browsers category with a subcategory of Add-ons & Tools. This free extension serves as a quality of life improvement for University of Washington students, researchers, and staff by seamlessly granting access to academic papers from off-campus digital libraries.

The extension simplifies the process for users when visiting supported digital libraries. Instead of manually searching for off-campus links to view PDFs, UW Off-Campus Reading automatically replaces the PDF links with the proper off-campus links. This feature eliminates the need to navigate to the off-campus website separately, enhancing user experience within the University of Washington environment.