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2017

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Putting the OA into interlibrary loan

For the past year, the Open Access Button has been working to integrate our service with library catalogs and interlibrary loan systems — to surface accessible copies of articles directly through library discovery systems and fulfill interlibrary loan requests…

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Making more research Open Access one paper at a time

At the Open Access Button we go beyond finding research and directly reach out to scholars who publish their work in paywalled journals to ask them to legally share their research. We recently shared a few examples of stories from users…

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A year of crushing paywalls in GIFs

How did we do at providing free access to research in 2017?

Since 2013, the Open Access Button has been working to build and support efforts to make free, fast, legal tools for discovering free papers…

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Three cheers for Unpaywall and oaDOI!

We’ve been working on how to get around paywalls legally and connect people with accessible versions of papers since 2013. It’s a hard problem to solve! That’s why we’re so pleased to see Unpaywall and oaDOI (from the team behind Impactstory) working on this…

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10 Reasons Why We Need to Smash Paywalls Now

Paywalls are frustrating. We’ve all been locked out of research, whether we’re writing a paper or researching the disease of a loved one. Our request system asks authors to share their work with researchers, journalists, students, and the curious…

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The Open Access Button Needs YOU to Make Research OA

Join the Open Access Button team as a request system volunteer!

You can find openly accessible research with the Open Access Button — but what about research not yet…

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How Paywalls Harm Cancer Patients

Practitioners, patients, researchers, and caregivers are locked out of the medical research they…

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What we’ve been doing to understand how to put Open Access into ILL

Over the past few months we’ve been testing how to deliver Open Access materials in interlibrary loan services at three universities in the United Kingdom in collaboration with Jisc. Learn more about the project…

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Your Feedback + New Site = A Better Button

We listened to your feedback and released an updated site this week. Overall the site is a bit prettier, but there are some good features to highlight:

You can now download our plugins with one click from the homepage. Find and…

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Celebrating the Open Access Button’s Fourth Birthday!

Four years ago this week two undergraduate students had the idea for what became the Open Access Button — a browser extension for people to report paywalls and share why they needed access to the paper.

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