Open Access Button

Open Access Button

Having difficulty in accessing full text of published research articles due to paywalls? Well, Open Access Button is an application that helps you to get free access to full text articles and legally too. One can either get access instantly wherever possible or request the author for a copy of the article through this application. They provide a button which can be installed on the user’s browser for quick use.

The principle behind this application is that research outputs that are publicly funded should be made available free of cost to the public as well as to the other researchers working in those areas.

The application navigates through various repositories and aggregators to locate full text articles and gives you access to the same through a link. It searches bibliographic metadata across the web to locate open access versions of various articles.

Find more about the various features of this application in this link https://openaccessbutton.org/about

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