Abstract
Unpaywall, created by Jason Priem and Heather Piwowar of ImpactStory in 2017, is a plug-in tool for individual users to access and find OA articles, regardless of where they are searching for those articles.
Highlights
Finding research data and studies that are accessible for the purposes of furthering the sciences is the crux of much of what researchers do when they search the Internet and subscription databases
Many researchers will openly contact their colleagues at other institutions asking them to share access or send an article before even considering contacting their libraries to obtain it via the interlibrary loan (ILL) process, while others will use web tools such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, or Twitter [1, 2]
Unpaywall has tools that libraries and institutions can integrate into their databases and institutional repositories, as well as build on using the oaDOI database [7]
Summary
Finding research data and studies that are accessible for the purposes of furthering the sciences is the crux of much of what researchers do when they search the Internet and subscription databases. Many scholarly works are being deposited into institutional repositories that are not necessarily known or aggregated into search engines consistently Finding these data and studies still presents a challenge. There are some tools that have aggregated data and studies from institutional repositories or open access (OA) websites and journals, such as OAIster, OpenDOAR, Google, and Google Scholar. Unpaywall, created by Jason Priem and Heather Piwowar of Impactstory in 2017, is a plug-in tool for individual users to access and find OA articles, regardless of where they are searching for those articles It can be used in Chrome or Firefox browsers and helps the user identify articles that are freely available, regardless if the user is locating articles via institutional subscriptions or on the Internet. Unpaywall has tools that libraries and institutions can integrate into their databases and institutional repositories, as well as build on using the oaDOI database [7]
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