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.

This week David was interviewed by Abby Tabor from My Science Work [http://www.mysciencework.com/en/] about the how the idea came about, how we developed the open access button prototype and what are the plans for the future. You can read the interview over on the website here

A screenshot of the map of denials of access from our prototype is the picture of the week in this week’s BMJ [http://www.bmj.com]. You can check it out in print or at the link to the pdf here [http://www.bmj.com/highwire/section-pdf/653443/0/

Last weekend’s BMJ Hack has been reported in the BMJ [http://www.bmj.com/]. The article can be found here [http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f4437]. At the weekend, we built the prototype for the OA Button and the BMJ judges (chief executive officer Tim Brooks, editor

Over the course of the BMJ Hack weekend, team member Joseph McArthur was interviewed by the BMJ’s Digital Engagement Editor, Matthew Billingsley. The interview can be found over here [http://doc2doc.bmj.com/forums/medical-education-cpd_student-bmj-1_bmjhack-dispatches-weekend] on the BMJ’s clinical community doc2doc or can be streamed below.

Last weekend, we took our open access button idea to the BMJ Hack and we built a protoype. We storify’d the weekend here. Who knew you could have so much fun? Indoors, on the hottest weekend of the year. 1. Open Access Button@OA_Button [http://twitter.com/OA_

If we want to bring about a more open community we’ll need more tools, more information and more engagement around the issue. That’s where our idea comes in. Imagine a browser-based tool which allowed you to track every time someone was denied access to a paper? Better yet,

For the past few months, like chickens on eggs we have been sitting on what we think is a game changing idea. We’ve been sitting on it because despite trying as two student activists, we just haven’t found the help we need to make it a reality. So