Stephen Downes

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Unpaywall

Heather Piwowar, Impactstory, Mar 18, 2017

Are you or your students trying to get work done but get stuck at a paywall? I know it happens to me often enough. That's why some developers have created Unpaywall - it points you to open access versions of the paper the publisher is trying to charge you money for. Now I can't vouch for how well it works - the Firefox extension is still in the review process. But I like the idea a lot. As Heather Piwowar writes, "We want everyone in the world to have a 'read it free button next to the "pay us money" button on research articles, powered by open access in repositories worldwide."

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