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Now available in beta… https://gettheresearch.org Here is some background, plucked from various sources: Created by combining data from Wikipedia, Pubmed, EuropePMC, Crossref, Unpaywall, and Paperbuzz… #opendata for the win! Check out the tweets about it #gettheresearch Get the peer-reviewed research on any topic. Free, complete, powered by #openaccess and AI. From @unpaywall and @ArcadiaFund.

Let’s just outsource every library service we can not hold up ourselves anymore.(cynical) Here is anotyher services you can buy to “complements your interlibrary loan (ILL) services by providing library patrons with the immediate fulfillment of full-text articles from unsubscribed journals” It is called Get it now, by a company called Copyright Clearance Center BasedContinue reading “Another 3rd party commercial service to deliver scientific publications to patrons of libraries. : “Get it now””

Ami from Iris.ai wrote  an update on R4R. Starting today, you are now able to view and explore the list of authors registered for R4R at https://iris.ai/r4r. While they continue development on the R4R browser extension, this list will allow you to contact users manually to request access to a paper that they’ve written

” You don’t have to find the library. The library finds YOU! (in your browser) The University of Groningen Library and the Central Medical Libary of the UMCG are testing the very promising tool called LEANLIBRARY. It works inside the user’s browser, and can be tweaked for every library to re-direct or assist the userContinue reading “UPDATED: How To Get the PDF? Guide, now with LEANLIBRARY”

Here is the press release of STM about the acquisition of Lean Library. http://www.stm-publishing.com/sage-publishing-acquires-lean-library-to-bring-library-services-into-the-patrons-workflow/ This brings us to the following overview of one-click-pdf-tools: Kopernio (now acquired by Clarivate; free; shows accessible fulltext for your library (if you have a off-campus solution), plus open access and alternative versions. Unpaywall (by Impactstory ; free; brings you open accessContinue reading “Lean library joins SAGE Publishing to bring library services into the patrons’ workflow”

The way Browzine is offering access to the pdf in their tool, is now being integrated into discovery tools like Summon en Primo! here is an excerpt of the press-release: Coming Next Week to Primo & Summon BrowZine Libraries! Discovery environments are about to get a whole lot better!  Users love how BrowZine brings themContinue reading “And yet another one-click-to pdf tool : LibKey by Third Iron”

With +50.000 subscribers to the subreddit SCHOLAR https://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/  it is for sure a network to be mentioned, when talking about the various existing  ways to get to full-text. If i am honest, i did not know about it untill recently i read a blog post by Aaron Tay (Reminder: you should ALWAYS read ALL hisContinue reading “Requesting scientific publications via Reddit Scholar”

Thanks to Lotta Haglund for pointing out this ” survival guide” published by the Linköping University Library. Interesting in this guide is that they clearly also want to show almost every tool their users could use, and also are not afraid to list -what they call- the ” Dark Side- tool” I think it is essentialContinue reading “Survival Guide to find full-text of articles by Linköping University Library”

Find, Click, Read. With those three words starts the launch of a new service by Digital Science. Read more about it on their blog here: Anywhere Access: Find. Click. Read. or visit one of their webinars : https://www.anywhereaccess.com/webinar/ After the webinar and a seperate demo at the University Medical Center Groningen this week, i will comeContinue reading “The Launch of a new licensed tool Anywhereaccess.com”

Here is the new library guide from University Library of the Karolinska Insitutet about the alternative ways you can access scientific publications after the nation-wide cancellation of the Elsevier licenses. It is presented in a nice graphic workflow. Being a medical university they decided to list PubMed Central as the number one go-to resource. Second listingContinue reading “How to get access to Elsevier journals after July 1st | by Karolinska Institutet University Library”