Open Access Button Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• ‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees - Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon

  Try instead openaccessbutton.org or e-mail authors directly. Source: over 1 year ago

• is there anyway I can avoid paying 50$ for research papers?

  You may also want to check out the Open Access Button. https://openaccessbutton.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Why do Chinese/Asian wheat noodles taste/feel different than Italian/European wheat pasta?

  There are browser add-ons that can help with the same, such as the OA button or Unpaywall, though Google Scholar is slightly better (for now) given that they cast a wider net. Source: over 2 years ago

• Sci-Hub Scholar - Firefox Extension Update v1.2.0

  I've seen some other Sci-Hub extensions, most notably https://openaccessbutton.org/. However most of these require you to go to the article page, then click the extension's button to finally be redirected. I thought I could do better. Source: over 2 years ago

• Best way for someone unafilliated with a university to get access to a swath of academic journals (in this case medicine/neurology)?

  Have you tried open access button for individual articles? It's not perfect and can be really hit-or-miss, but if there's a (legal!) free version out there, it's pretty good at finding it. Source: over 2 years ago

• Differences in muscle mass. This study looked at how exercise can preserve muscle mass. Here they compare a 74-year old sedentary man and a 70-year old triathlete, and the difference in fat and muscle tissue is extreme.

  Using https://openaccessbutton.org/ I found the complete paper freely accessible: https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_0F2250E382B7.P001/REF.pdf. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to get into research papers ?

  There's the open access button, if you guys don't know about it yet: https://openaccessbutton.org. Source: almost 3 years ago

• The DOI System

  That would be super helpful when I find a journal article that's on Pubmed, but doesn't have a DOI attached to it anywhere that I can find. Anyone wanna take on this project? I already use: Open Access Button: https://openaccessbutton.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Why don't people read proper science?

  Https://openaccessbutton.org/ (finds open access versions if any exist). Source: about 3 years ago

• Where to find educational research?

  You can also use the Open Access button to find open versions of paywalled stuff, which is useful for any specific articles you want to follow up: https://openaccessbutton.org/. Source: over 3 years ago