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An open database of 56,113,250 free scholarly articles. #Unpaywall finds open access editions to blocked journals

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An open database of 56,113,250 free scholarly articles. #Unpaywall finds open access editions to blocked journals

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This is my first post on this new account, and I prefer to start with something genuinely useful for everyone.
Wispar: my favorite app for staying updated on scientific research

Struggling to keep up with the latest publications? Wispar makes it effortless.

Instant search via OpenAlex (free and open source)
Automatic free PDFs with Unpaywall
Personalized alerts for journals and keywords
Offline reading + Zotero sync
100% private, open source, no ads

Android: F-Droid | Google Play
iPhone: App Store

An essential app for students, researchers, and curious minds. Simple, effective, free.

#Wispar #OpenAlex #Unpaywall #OpenScience #Research #Productivity #FOSS #Zotero #Students #Researchers #Android #iPhone #iOS #FOSSAndroid #AppStore

This is my first post on this new account, and I prefer to start with something genuinely useful for everyone.
Wispar: my favorite app for staying updated on scientific research

Struggling to keep up with the latest publications? Wispar makes it effortless.

Instant search via OpenAlex (free and open source)
Automatic free PDFs with Unpaywall
Personalized alerts for journals and keywords
Offline reading + Zotero sync
100% private, open source, no ads

Android: F-Droid | Google Play
iPhone: App Store

An essential app for students, researchers, and curious minds. Simple, effective, free.

#Wispar #OpenAlex #Unpaywall #OpenScience #Research #Productivity #FOSS #Zotero #Students #Researchers #Android #iPhone #iOS #FOSSAndroid #AppStore

"A new environment for license negotiations: 40% of recent articles in the top publishers' subscription/hybrid journals are freely available online" @ The Journal of Academic Librarianship:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2026.103241
#OpenAccess #GoogleScholar #Licensing #Negotiation #OpenAlex #Unpaywall

"A new environment for license negotiations: 40% of recent articles in the top publishers' subscription/hybrid journals are freely available online" @ The Journal of Academic Librarianship:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2026.103241
#OpenAccess #GoogleScholar #Licensing #Negotiation #OpenAlex #Unpaywall

#Unpaywall improvements: more gold, better green - OurResearch blog
#openaccess
Unpaywal est intégré aux #discoverytools des #bibliothèques
Est-il couramment utilisé par les publics de l'#ESR ? Je parle d'Unpaywall mais on peut se poser la question aussi pour les discovery tools des BU...
https://blog.ourresearch.org/unpaywall-improvements-more-gold-better-green/

Unpaywall makes a big leap in gold OA accuracy. OJS, J-STAGE, SciELO, MDPI data + new logic = bump from 14% to 19% gold. Green OA logic improved too. A new curation portal + OpenAlex code merge are next.
#OpenAccess #Unpaywall #OpenAlex

https://blog.ourresearch.org/unpaywall-improvements-more-gold-better-green/

Unpaywall makes a big leap in gold OA accuracy. OJS, J-STAGE, SciELO, MDPI data + new logic = bump from 14% to 19% gold. Green OA logic improved too. A new curation portal + OpenAlex code merge are next.
#OpenAccess #Unpaywall #OpenAlex

https://blog.ourresearch.org/unpaywall-improvements-more-gold-better-green/

OpenAlex is getting a major overhaul—in motion. The team is rebuilding OpenAlex and merging it with Unpaywall, adding 50M+ works, fixing legacy bugs, and enabling user curation—all while keeping schema and IDs stable.
#OpenAlex #Unpaywall #ScholarlyData

https://blog.ourresearch.org/were-rebuilding-openalex-while-its-running-heres-whats-changing/

OpenAlex is getting a major overhaul—in motion. The team is rebuilding OpenAlex and merging it with Unpaywall, adding 50M+ works, fixing legacy bugs, and enabling user curation—all while keeping schema and IDs stable.
#OpenAlex #Unpaywall #ScholarlyData

https://blog.ourresearch.org/were-rebuilding-openalex-while-its-running-heres-whats-changing/

Major Update to #Unpaywall Database (via #OurResearch) https://blog.ourresearch.org/major-update-to-unpaywall-database/

Major Update to #Unpaywall Database (via #OurResearch) https://blog.ourresearch.org/major-update-to-unpaywall-database/

@jeroenbosman Well, #Unpaywall used to do this in the sense that they linked DOAJ and stated the first OA date (separately for repository copy and publisher copy), but recently they've been removing some of these features.

@jeroenbosman Well, #Unpaywall used to do this in the sense that they linked DOAJ and stated the first OA date (separately for repository copy and publisher copy), but recently they've been removing some of these features.

Today in how #Elsevier ruins my mood: Pure repositories pollute #Unpaywall with garbage data.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396127
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396126

#OAbot #GreenOA #OpenAccess

Today in how #Elsevier ruins my mood: Pure repositories pollute #Unpaywall with garbage data.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396127
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396126

#OAbot #GreenOA #OpenAccess

It took ten years, but HAL has started implementing a part of it (https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/en/2023/12/hal-s-new-service-deposit-suggestions-for-automatic-import-of-open-access-publications/ ). Unlike @pintoch (https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/retrospective-of-dissemin-and-thoughts-on-the-open-access-movement/ ), I consider this a success for Dissemin.

But we need more. Every repository should do it, but given the effort it's more realistically done by consortial, national or international bodies. Some parts of the service, like #OpenAlex / #Unpaywall and #InternetArchiveScholar, are so expensive we can probably afford just one to be shared by all global users.

It took ten years, but HAL has started implementing a part of it (https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/en/2023/12/hal-s-new-service-deposit-suggestions-for-automatic-import-of-open-access-publications/ ). Unlike @pintoch (https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/retrospective-of-dissemin-and-thoughts-on-the-open-access-movement/ ), I consider this a success for Dissemin.

But we need more. Every repository should do it, but given the effort it's more realistically done by consortial, national or international bodies. Some parts of the service, like #OpenAlex / #Unpaywall and #InternetArchiveScholar, are so expensive we can probably afford just one to be shared by all global users.

@kfitz Do you accept #PublicDomain works by US government employees? About a million would need to be archived in some place #Unpaywall can find.
https://archive.org/details/@academic_public_domain

#OAintheUSA

@kfitz Do you accept #PublicDomain works by US government employees? About a million would need to be archived in some place #Unpaywall can find.
https://archive.org/details/@academic_public_domain

#OAintheUSA

@jplie @ZBW_MediaTalk Das halte ich für einen argumentativen Pappkameraden. #GreenOpenAccess bedeutet schon lange #Repositorien. Auffindbarkeit über Katalogisierung oder Browseraddons wie #Unpaywall. Selbstarchivierung auf Webseiten von Autorinnen und Autoren ohne Nachweis war vor >15 Jahren mal.

@ethanwhite @OpenAlex Thanks for your work. Great to hear that OurResearch is, quote, "We're a lean, hustling, resilient nonprofit. After 10yrs, we're now 100% self-sustaining via earned revenue."
https://ourresearch.org/

As the makers of the #Unpaywall and #OpenAlex, among other tools, you've earn quite some recognition.

#ScientificPublishing

@ethanwhite @OpenAlex Thanks for your work. Great to hear that OurResearch is, quote, "We're a lean, hustling, resilient nonprofit. After 10yrs, we're now 100% self-sustaining via earned revenue."
https://ourresearch.org/

As the makers of the #Unpaywall and #OpenAlex, among other tools, you've earn quite some recognition.

#ScientificPublishing

https://oahelper.org: "Open Access Helper makes it easy to access these documents, and it also helps you conveniently access your library’s extensive resources."

(Via CODE4LIB: Library browser extensions (https://lists.clir.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2406&L=CODE4LIB&P=46314))

#oahelper #browserExtensions #openaccess #unpaywall #ezproxy #core #OpenCitations

https://oahelper.org: "Open Access Helper makes it easy to access these documents, and it also helps you conveniently access your library’s extensive resources."

(Via CODE4LIB: Library browser extensions (https://lists.clir.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2406&L=CODE4LIB&P=46314))

#oahelper #browserExtensions #openaccess #unpaywall #ezproxy #core #OpenCitations

@RationalWiki

Thanks!

Handy to know for keen senses of curiosity: thanks to #unpaywall's handy API our weekly listing includes #OpenAccess links as available (such as to accepted revisions etc.) even when the journal itself is practicing the relatively novel ransomware approach.

Unpaywall also provides nifty plugins for Chrome and Firefox. Coverage is immense. Our stats find some 60-70% of articles free to read by one means or another-- all perfectly legal.

https://unpaywall.org/products/extension

@RationalWiki

Thanks!

Handy to know for keen senses of curiosity: thanks to #unpaywall's handy API our weekly listing includes #OpenAccess links as available (such as to accepted revisions etc.) even when the journal itself is practicing the relatively novel ransomware approach.

Unpaywall also provides nifty plugins for Chrome and Firefox. Coverage is immense. Our stats find some 60-70% of articles free to read by one means or another-- all perfectly legal.

https://unpaywall.org/products/extension

It's irritating that #pubmed sends out #RSS announcements when the #DOI is not ready yet.

I'm not even sure how to access it just now since it is paywalled and that I usually get those thru either my library's DOI resolution, #Scholar or #unpaywall -- which doesn't link to the #preprint (yet?)

#GoogleScholar on the title does link to preprint, so if you read because you're interested in the #paper and not in my rant, here it is: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.07.570568

It's irritating that #pubmed sends out #RSS announcements when the #DOI is not ready yet.

I'm not even sure how to access it just now since it is paywalled and that I usually get those thru either my library's DOI resolution, #Scholar or #unpaywall -- which doesn't link to the #preprint (yet?)

#GoogleScholar on the title does link to preprint, so if you read because you're interested in the #paper and not in my rant, here it is: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.07.570568

@pintoch

I seem to remember that I made your code available to either #oabutton or #unpaywall – with your consent, of course. I am not sure if they ended up using it in their system though.

/cc @nichtich @zaesa

@nichtich @christian @zaesa yes, we had something like this (for papers, not for research data though)! The successor was not the open access button, but rather #oadoi (oadoi.org), which used to do exactly what you describe, for research papers. Now that redirects to #unpaywall, which might also work on research data (but beware, last time I checked they send all your browsing history to their web service).

@nichtich @christian @zaesa yes, we had something like this (for papers, not for research data though)! The successor was not the open access button, but rather #oadoi (oadoi.org), which used to do exactly what you describe, for research papers. Now that redirects to #unpaywall, which might also work on research data (but beware, last time I checked they send all your browsing history to their web service).

At the end of last year, I was looking into the #Unpaywall status of articles that are openly available because their embargo has expired. Unpaywall classifies these as Hybrid, but I think it should instead be Bronze. The articles weren't open at the time of publication, which is Unpaywall's own criteria for Hybrid.

I wrote a short post about my approaches to detecting these and the implications at https://doi.org/10.31274/b8136f97.45a4f699 .

#OpenAccess

#openscience

Quelqu'un sait si / où on peut signaler un problème dans la base de données d' #unpaywall ?

J'ai un lien vers un pdf qui me renvoie vers une page D' #Elsevier qui se fout de ma gueule

Edit : j'ai envoyé un mail au mailto "report bug" du footer de leur site

#openscience

Quelqu'un sait si / où on peut signaler un problème dans la base de données d' #unpaywall ?

J'ai un lien vers un pdf qui me renvoie vers une page D' #Elsevier qui se fout de ma gueule

Edit : j'ai envoyé un mail au mailto "report bug" du footer de leur site

"Medieval Feminist Forum" sounds like a cool #OpenAccess journal!
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mff/about.html

But sigh: ir.uiowa.edu switched to some #ExLibris product and removed the journal archive, all incoming links were broken with no redirects in place, #DOAJ and #Unpaywall know nothing about it, BASE doesn't have the new OAI-PMH endpoint.

I bet the repository admins are crying in their sleep. Sometimes working in #libraries is frustrating.

So, #InternetArchive to the rescue:
https://fatcat.wiki/container/oq5jgwuszjaqvaz2eiodugzonm

"Medieval Feminist Forum" sounds like a cool #OpenAccess journal!
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mff/about.html

But sigh: ir.uiowa.edu switched to some #ExLibris product and removed the journal archive, all incoming links were broken with no redirects in place, #DOAJ and #Unpaywall know nothing about it, BASE doesn't have the new OAI-PMH endpoint.

I bet the repository admins are crying in their sleep. Sometimes working in #libraries is frustrating.

So, #InternetArchive to the rescue:
https://fatcat.wiki/container/oq5jgwuszjaqvaz2eiodugzonm

#France institutional repository of #scientificPublications @hal_fr has announced that it will now allow to collect automatically #openAccess version of papers they list.
This involves #openAlex data and then locating potential files via #unpaywall .

Note for those in France: they're willing to have people test this, notably those who have open access papers not yet in their base.

https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/2023/09/collecter-vos-publications-en-libre-acces-pour-les-importer-dans-hal/

#France institutional repository of #scientificPublications @hal_fr has announced that it will now allow to collect automatically #openAccess version of papers they list.
This involves #openAlex data and then locating potential files via #unpaywall .

Note for those in France: they're willing to have people test this, notably those who have open access papers not yet in their base.

https://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/2023/09/collecter-vos-publications-en-libre-acces-pour-les-importer-dans-hal/

A #Supernova ‘Destroyed’ Some of #Earth’s #Ozone for a Few Minutes in 2022
A new study suggests that explosive events in #space have the potential to temporarily switch off the natural shield that protects us from harmful solar #radiation.
#NYTimes Artile Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/science/gamma-ray-burst-ozone-depletion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-kw.bwpy.ws69rnnwaZ_C&smid=url-share
#UnPaywall https://archive.ph/9l8he

A #Supernova ‘Destroyed’ Some of #Earth’s #Ozone for a Few Minutes in 2022
A new study suggests that explosive events in #space have the potential to temporarily switch off the natural shield that protects us from harmful solar #radiation.
#NYTimes Artile Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/science/gamma-ray-burst-ozone-depletion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-kw.bwpy.ws69rnnwaZ_C&smid=url-share
#UnPaywall https://archive.ph/9l8he

@petrichor A simple option would be to have a browser extension like #Unpaywall preinstalled by default on every university-provided computer. Then gradually add features like this informative/advertising banner you thought of.

@petrichor A simple option would be to have a browser extension like #Unpaywall preinstalled by default on every university-provided computer. Then gradually add features like this informative/advertising banner you thought of.

@MsPhelps It might also help to exclude bronze OA from the comparisons, because #Unpaywall detection has degraded in the past year or so (possibly because PDFs are increasingly inaccessible, hidden behind multiple walls of technical measures such as captchas and whatnot).
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344114#9118322

The French #OpenScience barometer seems to point to a decrease in retrospective deposits in the past couple years.

#ScienceOuverte
https://barometredelascienceouverte.esr.gouv.fr/

@cameronneylon @brembs

@MsPhelps It might also help to exclude bronze OA from the comparisons, because #Unpaywall detection has degraded in the past year or so (possibly because PDFs are increasingly inaccessible, hidden behind multiple walls of technical measures such as captchas and whatnot).
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344114#9118322

The French #OpenScience barometer seems to point to a decrease in retrospective deposits in the past couple years.

#ScienceOuverte
https://barometredelascienceouverte.esr.gouv.fr/

@cameronneylon @brembs

@eloquence This is a very difficult problem to solve, though. #Unpaywall has built an entire business on identifying the access status of DOIs and there's still a significant error rate in the identification of bronze #OpenAccess (gratis, not libre).

@eloquence This is a very difficult problem to solve, though. #Unpaywall has built an entire business on identifying the access status of DOIs and there's still a significant error rate in the identification of bronze #OpenAccess (gratis, not libre).

If you want something that does this across browsers without feeding details of what you're reading to Google, check out https://openaccessbutton.org/ or https://unpaywall.org/ (slightly different use cases)

Hmm, looks like none of the current #OAbutton or #unpaywall teams are here on fedi. Pinging @researchremix and @ethanwhite

If you want something that does this across browsers without feeding details of what you're reading to Google, check out https://openaccessbutton.org/ or https://unpaywall.org/ (slightly different use cases)

Hmm, looks like none of the current #OAbutton or #unpaywall teams are here on fedi. Pinging @researchremix and @ethanwhite