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How Unpaywall is transforming open science
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How Unpaywall is transforming open science

Unpaywall has become indispensable to many academics, and tie-ins with established scientific search engines could broaden its reach.
  1. Holly Else
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After being kicked out of a hotel conference room where they had participated in a three-day open-science workshop and hackathon, a group of computer scientists simply moved to an adjacent hallway. There, Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem and Cristhian Parra worked all night on software to help academics to illustrate how much of their work was freely available on the Internet. They realized how much time had passed only when they noticed hotel staff starting to prepare for breakfast.

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Nature 560, 290-291 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05968-3

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  1. Piwowar, H. et al. Preprint at PeerJ Preprints https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3119v1 (2017).

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