Open Access Button: Tearing down barriers to accessing research « Agro-Know blog

"One of the hottest topics in the context of research is Open Access; there are numerous events taking place each year all over the world, focusing on open access to scientific research and their data, highlighting issues, proposing solutions and approaches that can fit most purposes related to open access. Publications describing the issue are published every now and then, providing the status Terms like Gold & Green Open Access, self-archiving, institutional repositories, metadata, linked and open data, are really frequently discussed in related opportunities and alternative processes for review and publication of research papers are presented, usually as parts of processes integrated in open access journals ... While Open Access allows everyone to freely access, use and re-use research outcomes, there are still these barriers in accessing them. In this direction, the Open Access Button was developed 'to track the impact of paywalls and help you get access to the research you need'. It should be noted that the code, text, and data that has been pulled together are openly available, so anyone can innovate and advocate with it.  The idea behind the OA Button is simple; you just have to sign up (for free!) and then you get access to the OA Button, which is a simple bookmarklet. In order to use it, you just have to drag it to your browser’s bookmarks’ bar and drop it there! Then, each time you come across any paywall that restrict your access to a research paper, article etc., you just have to click on the OA Button and you will be presented with a simple form, most of which is already completed (by the metadata available in the HTML page that you are accessing) ..."