From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:36:19 -0400

Anali:  Exciting news.  Anyone know what version(s) is/are linked to
this way?  Is this the final version or are there versioning issues?

Any thoughts about whether this could begin to impact subscriptions?

Thank you, Ann Okerson


On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 11:28 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Anali Perry <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:05:40 +0000
>
> In case you missed it, on Friday, Impactstory pre-released a new
> Chrome extension called Unpaywall that looks for free full-text of
> research articles that would otherwise seem to be only available with
> a subscription.
>
> http://blog.impactstory.org/unpaywall/
>
> From the announcement:
>
> “Unpaywall is powered by an index of over ten million
> legally-uploaded, open-access resources, and it delivers. For example,
> in a set of 11k recent cancer research articles covered in mainstream
> media, Unpaywall users were able to read around half of them for
> free–even without any subscription, and even though most of them were
> paywalled.”
>
> The extension is still in a beta stage, with full release scheduled
> for April 4, but more people using it helps work out the bugs in
> advance.
>
> The FAQ has some additional information, including how it works and
> advanced settings.
>
> http://unpaywall.org/faq
>
> This tool joins OADOI and the Open Access Button as easy ways to try
> to bring open access versions of papers more to the forefront.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anali Maughan Perry
> Associate Librarian - Collections & Scholarly Communication
> ASU Library
> (480) 727-6301
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> http://libguides.asu.edu/profile/amperry
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>
> My pronouns are she/her/hers