New Browser Extension Supports Open Access Use

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Clik here to view.A Chronicle of Higher Education article recently reports that the Open Access Button is a new tool that helps researchers gain free access to copies of articles and many libraries are integrating it into interlibrary-loan arrangements. Another new tool, Unpaywall, is a non-profit, open source browser extension. When an Unpaywall user lands on the page of a research article, the software scours thousands of institutional repositories, preprint servers, and websites like PubMed Central to see if an open-access copy of the article is available. If it is, users can click a small green tab on the side of the screen to view a PDF.