Open Access Button

Open Access Button logo

The Open Access Button is a browser bookmarklet which registers when people hit a paywall to an academic article and cannot access it.[1] It is supported by Medsin UK and the Right to Research Coalition.[1]

A prototype was built at a BMJ Hack Weekend.[2][3] All code is openly available online at GitHub.[4]

A beta version of the Open Access Button was officially launched on 18 November 2013 at the Berlin 11 Satellite Conference for Students & Early Stage Researchers.[5] It records instances of hitting a paywall, and also provides options to try to locate an open access version of the article.[6] In April 2014 a crowdfunding campaign was started to build a second version.[7]

The second version of the button was launched on 21st October 2014 as part of open access week.[8]

In February 2015 the Open Access Button and its co-founders, David Carroll and Joseph McArthur ("the button boys"), were awarded a SPARC Innovator Award by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "About". Open Access Button. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Carroll, David; McArthur, Joseph (2013). "The Open Access Button: It’s time we capture individual moments of paywall injustice and turn them into positive change". LSE Impact. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Picture of the week". BMJ 347. July 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Open Access Button". GitHub. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  5. ↑ "Speakers at B11 Satellite Conference". Right 2 Research Coalition. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  6. ↑ "Push button for open access". Guardian. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  7. ↑ Browne, Tania (29 April 2014). "Let's shine a light on paywalls that deny open access to scientific research". Guardian. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
  8. ↑ http://blog.openaccessbutton.org/2014/10/02/launching-the-new-open-access-button-push-button-get-research-make-progress/
  9. ↑ Adams, Caralee (2015). "SPARC Innovator: The Open Access Button". Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Association of Research Libraries. Archived from the original on 2015-09-15. Retrieved 19 October 2015.

External links

Official website


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