From: Brian Simboli <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:56:03 -0400

To what extent does the new Impactstory look-up capability overlap
with the same capabilities in Google Scholar?

When would one want to use one as opposed to the other? Or are they
complementary?

Thanks
Brian Simboli
Lehigh University


> Date:    Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:28:21 -0400
> From:    LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: ImpactStory releases new Chrome Extension: Unpaywall
>
> 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
> [log in to unmask]
> http://libguides.asu.edu/profile/amperry
> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7173-4827