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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