Tell us what you want to see in Button 2.0

We launched the Open Access Button in November at the Berlin 11 Student and Early Stage Researcher Conference. To date there have been over 5000 paywalls mapped. What we have now is just a taste of what we are now building, and there is much more to come in Button

The Week in Links — February 8

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week (or two)? “Open Access is inevitable,” said Dutch State Secretary for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Sander Dekker at the Academic Publishing in Europe 2014. Dekker also highlighted the Open Access Button and other

Weekly Update: January 13–19

Open Access Button Co-Lead Joe McArthur gives the weekly video update for January 13–19. This week Joe talks about consultation, integrating the Button with Wikipedia, implementing referral codes, and our plans for February.

Weekly update: January 6–12th

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:

Remembering Aaron

One year ago, the world lost Aaron Swartz. Swartz was an Internet activist, computer programmer, and political organizer that had relentless optimism for a better and more open world. He helped author the RSS 1.0 web syndication specification at 14, was one of the earliest architects of Creative Commons

Are you a graphic designer? Join our team!

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

The Open Access Button Launch Roundup

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

Open Access Button Info Sheet

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

Sign up to support the Open Access Button in your region

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Students Launch “Button” to Put Denied Access to Research on the Map

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

How to use the Open Access Button

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

Donation thank you

The Open Access Button team are hoping to create a world where it won’t be needed. Until then, support from amazing people like you ensures Open Access Button can keep fighting to overcome the barriers that block free access to knowledge. Your receipt will reach you as specified by

Disclaimer

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

Open Access Button does speaking of Medicine front page

The lovely people at PLoS stuck us on their front page. Also a shout to the article above which is a solid read

The Open Access Button Does Speaking Of Medicine

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

The BMA cover our thunderclap!

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

This is an announcement about an announcement #meta

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

Weekly Update 4: T-minus 4 weeks

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

Join our team!

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

OA Button Weekly Update Week 3

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

OA Button Hack- Day 1 update

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

Open Access Button Hackathon — Everything you need to know

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

OA Button Weekly Update Week 2

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:

OA Button Hackathon 7–8th September

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=

OA button weekly update: T-minus 8 weeks

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’