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General information
- Owned by Arcadia and is free to use
- Supported by SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
- Finds Open Access content from e.g. aggregated repositories; hybrid and open access journals; authors personal web pages; Open Aire ; Dissem.in ; Unpaywall
- It doesn't search automatically : you need to click on it :
- You can use the Open Access Button search box instead of the browser extension to find articles
- Click on 'Requests' on the top right of the website to see some of the articles being requested to be made available
Using the search box
- the search box is at https://openaccessbutton.org
- Searches using: article URL; DOI; PubMed ID; PubMed Central ID; Title; Citation
- Does not search using keyword
- Provides results with the answers
- ‘This article is available’;
- ‘This article is inaccessible’ – age related : the article may be too old, but this definition can be incorrect sometimes;
- ‘This article is inaccessible’ – request it and Open Access Button will try to get it for you from the author
