This has been a great week for the Open Access Button (OAB). The beginning of 2014 has put the Open Access (OA) movement in a historic perspective, great goals have been accomplished and, as Hilda Bastian pointed out in her review: Open access 2013: A year of gaining momentum [http:

We are looking for two volunteers with general graphic design skills to work with the Open Access Button team. The Open Access Button [https://www.openaccessbutton.org/] is a browser plugin that maps and tracks the impacts of scholarly journal paywalls. The Button beta launched on November 18 and gained

After hundreds of hours, many sleepless nights and a whole lot of coffee on November 18th, the Open Access Button launched it’s beta product. The Open Access Button [blank] is a tool designed to track and map paywalls, while helping the user get access to the research they need

A Student Initiative to Put Denied Access to Research on the Map What is the button? ♦ A browser based tool that can map who is denied access to research ♦ The button creates a real time, worldwide, interactive picture of the problem. Using social media will make this problem visible to

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 18, 2013 Contacts: openaccessbutton@medsin.org Students Launch “Button” to Put Denied Access to Research on the Map BERLIN — Today, at an international meeting of student advocates for expanded access to academic research, two undergraduates from Great Britain announced the highly-anticipated launch of The Open Access

Open Access Button: How to use it? How can I get the Open Access Button? You can get your very own Button in seconds at www.openaccessbutton.org. [http://www.openaccessbutton.org.] Simply sign up by telling us your name, email and profession, then drag the button to your bookmark

The Open Access Button Programme takes no responsibility for the validity of data provided by the Open Access Button tool but all efforts are made to ensure the data is reliable. The Open Access Button is funded by the Right to Research Coalition and is a part of Medsin UK

This post was originally posted at http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2013/10/22/oa-button-launch-if-someone-hits-a-paywall-in-the-forest-does-it-make-a-sound/ . Thanks to PLOS for publishing. Co-leads of the Open Access Button Project, David Carroll and Joseph McArthur announce the launch of the Open Access Button. 18th November 2013. 10 years ago today. 19 organisations signed

Originally posted at http://bma.org.uk/news-views-analysis/news/2013/november/fight-for-open-access-research-in-joint-thunderclap-protest . Thanks to the BMA for the story. 1 November 2013 Students are being asked to take part in an online ‘thunderclap’ this month to highlight the difficulties of gaining access to research. Two students from the global health

Next week is Open Access Week. Open Access Week [http://www.openaccessweek.org/] is a global event which is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire

Welcome! We know what you’re all thinking, and we’re sorry. We know we missed a week. One of us went on holiday (how dare he), the other got ill so we didn’t manage to write this. What has happened since we last time, we’ve decided when

Everyone has hit a paywall. Each person hitting a paywall is an indictment of our current scholarly publishing system. We can’t settle for living in a broken system, where people are denied access to research they need, and ultimately paid for. Our project is a browser-based tool which tracks

The biggest thing that happened this week was our OA Button Hackathon (#oabuttonhack) at Top Office Machines, Shoreditch, home of Original Content London [http://originalcontentlondon.com/]. After having been organised in just under 2 weeks the weekend aimed to bring our developers together to work on the project. We spent

Day 1 of the OA Button hack kicked off at the home of Original Content London, [http://originalcontentlondon.com/]Top Office Machines over the day we were joined by developers, OA Policy people and even a turtle. Most of the first day we spent troubleshooting after our Python port from

It’s the weekend we’ve all been waiting for. The Open Access button Hackathon is almost upon us! First you’ve heard about it— click here [http://oabutton.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/oa-button-hackathon-7-8th-september/]. From this page you’ll find everything you need for the hackathon. Remember you can

Hey there! Welcome to the second of many Open Access Button Weekly updates. This past week we have organised on Open Access Button Hackathon in this weekend the 7th and 8th of September. The venue is Top Office Machines, 133–135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG London, United Kingdom [https:

UPDATE: Venue: Find everything you need to know for the day here! http://oabutton.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/open-access-button-hackathon-everything-you-need-to-know/ UPDATE: Venue: Top Office Machines, 133–135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG London, United Kingdom [https://www.google.co.uk/maps?q=133+Bethnal+Green+Road,+E2+7DG+London,+United+

Hey there! Welcome to the first of many Open Access Button Weekly updates. Throughout this project we’ve been blown away by the response of the OA community. Through twitter, blogs and chatting to folk the button is going to so much better than it ever could’ve been. We’

If someone hits a paywall in the forest, does it make a sound?: The Open Access Button | The Student Blog [http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2013/08/20/if-someone-hits-a-paywall-in-the-forest-does-it-make-a-sound-the-open-access-button/] .

We’ve all been there, dissertation pending, deadline approaching and coffee being demolished faster than is probably healthy. Then it happens. You hit a paywall [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paywall]— deadend. Frustration ensues, but no time, gotta move on. But wait, did you know you probably paid for that

David and Joseph from the Open Access Button team are in Budapest at the Right to Research Coalition General Assembly. You can watch a short interview with them below.