A short presentation outlining two services that find open access research. Upaywall & OA Button and details of Imperial College London's Library Services involvement with #OAButton for Interlibrary loans system.

1. Library
Services
Finding openly available
research – two services
John Murtagh, Open Access Support Manager
j.murtagh@imperial.ac.uk 26/04/2017

2. Access to research: paywalls

3. It’ll cost you

4. Going beyond the paywall
http://unpaywall.org/

5. Unpaywall
Free!

6. Finds a legal OA copy
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk:8443/handle/10044/1/10
426
Final draft open access
copy via Imperial’s research
repository - Spiral

7. OA Button
Just enter an article URL, DOI, PMID ID, Title or Citation
to find an OA version of a paper

8. Installed in your browser
Free, open source tool that can be used online via
the website or as a browser extension for Chrome or
Firefox.

9. Scenario 1

10. OA Button in action
Retrieve article &
request research data
from author

11. Finds a legal (GREEN) open
access copy

12. Finds OA copy via repositories

13. In a nutshell

14. Putting OA into Interlibrary loans
Interlibrary loan requests with Open Access Button SAVED
$27,000 dollars for Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis - http://bit.ly/2oDbCcL
In development - Summer 2017
• Imperial College London - one-click ILL requesting from
the OA Button bookmarklet and plugin.
• Initial integration with the Ex Libris Alma library system

15. Library
Services
Find out more
openaccess@imperial.ac.uk
Library-systems@imperial.ac.uk
@OAImperial