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KOPERNIO extension to find PDF's : plus Open Access button, Unpaywall, Google Scholar and Connect UPDATED!

UPDATE:  Clarivate Analytics Acquires Research Startup Kopernio to Accelerate Pace of Scientific Innovation I am currently testing 4 browser extensions in Chrome that can help me find the PDF i need. They seem to be popping up like dandelions in the fields ;-) (Please read my post on ALL possible options to get to a PDF:  http://digicmb.blogspot.nl/2017/03/how-to-get-pdf-infographic.html ) Here is a first glance of what they do. For testing i used this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.008   (not free or open access) Kopernio (previously  Canary Haz ( http://kopernio.com) Note this is a .com extension. This  new company  has been founded just 8 months ago. The Kopernio  extension was released just in March 2017. Currently the Kopernio button is in alpha-testing and so far it seems free. The previous name appeared to be a tribute to the #ICANHAZPDF movement (requesting pdf's via Twitter with this hashtag). ...

How DO I Deposit my Poster or Presentations to the F1000 Poster Portal?

To support the Poster Project,  I have made a short demo about Depositing Posters or Slides to the F1000 Poster Portal. How DO I Deposit my Poster or Presentations to the F1000 Poster Portal ? View more PowerPoint from Centrale Medische Bibliotheek, Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (UMCG) Móre about the Project: The UMCG F1000 Poster Project : an update Short YouTube movie about the the Open Access UMCG Institutional Poster Portal The Slides of this presentation The Portal info on the CMB Website

Searching Open Access Publications : identify you affiliation output

In order to increase the visibility of open access scientific and scholarly publications of the University Medical Center Groningen and thereby promoting their increased usage and impact, I am trying to create an automatically updating overview of OA publications of the UMCG, next to the beta WordPress blog that is being constructed to show all UMCG scientific publications With the masive attention the Open Access "movement" in international publising and media, I expected to this to be an easy task. But very quickly after trying to identify the resources to find these publications, it became clear that there are some serious difficulties. I won't go into details about the effects of publicing in OA or the impact factors of OA Journals , just making them visible. Many resources and overviews focus heaviliy on journal titels and sets, instead of the actual publications. Search opties are often limited, poor and it is not always possible to search for the publicat...

Liber Quarterly published now in open access

"LIBER Quarterly 18-3/4 Published" From the Liber website: LIBER Quarterly 18-3/4 Published The last 2008 issue of LIBER Quarterly has been published on open access at http://liber.library.uu.nl/ . It features this year’s Annual General Conference which dealt with strategic issues such as Quality versus Quantity and Changes in Scholarly Communication. Although much of the content deals with the digital world, the impressive new Additional Storage Building of the British Library at p. 388 is not to be missed. Read more