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Purpose: Provides a forum for the exchange of ideas among those persons working with or interested in electronic resources; promotes the acquisition and access of electronic resources collections; strengthens communication and cooperation among persons working with electronic resources collections; addresses issues related to collection management and development of electronic resources, their funding, and selection; and contributes to the improvement of education and training of electronic resource archivists and librarians.

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Open Access Helper - more than just Open Access and now on iPhone & iPad too

  • 1.  Open Access Helper - more than just Open Access and now on iPhone & iPad too

    Posted Nov 09, 2021 02:38 PM

    Dear Colleagues,

    Would you like to provide your users with quick and easy access to Open Access copies of otherwise paywalled scientific articles? If so, you probably use a free browser extension such as Unpaywall and/or Core Discovery.

    But what if you would like to offer this convenience to your users on Safari for macOS and/or Mobile Safari on iPhone or iPad? In that case your users were out of luck, until now. Consider recommending Open Access Helper (www.oahelper.org) to your iPad users & Mac users!

    Open Access Helper offers:

    • Open Access copies via unpaywall.org and / or core.ac.uk APIs
    • Times Cited counts via opencitations.net 
    • For users who self identified their institution, it will additionally offer:
      • Reloading of the current page via the institution's EZProxy server
      • Linking to the library's link resolver or Inter Library Loan form

    Give it a try, it is free and privacy conscious. I have developed the app and maintain it as a hobby project and would love to get more users.

    Would you like to see if your institution is already listed? 

    Visit https://www.oahelper.org/proxy/ and search by domain or institution name. 
    If your institution is not listed, please consider requesting for it to be added here https://www.oahelper.org/proxy?mode=new 
    If your institutions details are not quite perfect, request for them to be updated by contacting me at info@oahelper.org

    I look forward to your feedback and hope to welcome your users to the service soon!

    Best regards from Germany

    Claus