Impact of Social Sciences – Introducing Canary Haz: discovering article PDFs with one click

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-06-07

Summary:

"Access to PDFs of research papers is too often overly complicated and restricted. Canary Haz, a free browser plugin that helps researchers access the PDFs they need with just one click, has been released in response to this frustration. Peter Vincent, one of the co-founders, explains a little more about how Canary Haz works, while also encouraging feedback from the wider research community.

Frustrated by unnecessary barriers between researchers and journal papers, two colleagues from Imperial College London and I set out on a mission to solve the academic PDF 'access problem'. Last month we released Canary Haz, a free browser plugin that helps researchers access the PDFs they need with just one click!

From a given starting point, such as a publisher article page or Google Scholar results, Canary Haz begins its search. Where available it uses your institutional login credentials to hop over paywalls and dig out the final published version of the PDF. If unsuccessful, it will look for open versions, including preprints, and accepted manuscripts hosted on author blogs. The plugin then automatically serves up the best version of the PDF behind a single button click, and for good measure stores it in your own private Canary Haz locker, so you can access it again later. No more frantic Google searching, chasing broken links, or fiddling with proxy servers and VPNs – just one click to the PDF!"

Link:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/06/06/introducing-canary-haz-discovering-article-pdfs-with-one-click/

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Date tagged:

06/07/2017, 20:47

Date published:

06/07/2017, 16:47