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Legally Read Free Full Texts With Unpaywall: how to get Started With the Browser Extension
15. December 2021 , Birgit Fingerle

Legally Read Free Full Texts With Unpaywall: how to get Started With the Browser Extension

The browser extension Unpaywall enables you to easily and legally access free Open Access texts. This way you can access a wider range of economics and business studies publications for free with just one click. Learn in this blog post how you can get started quickly and enrich your research with an automatic Open Access option. Unpaywall contains around 29 million freely accessible texts. Thanks to Unpaywall´s browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, free alternative access to a fee-based journal article is displayed in the course of a search. This service is free of charge and offered by the non-profit […]

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Accelerating Open Science Transformation: How you Yourself can Open Science
3. December 2021 , Birgit Fingerle

Accelerating Open Science Transformation: How you Yourself can Open Science

The transformation to Open Science often seems cumbersome. Why can be explained by the concept of “Wicked Problems” described in a recently published workbook. Read here what hurdles are mentioned and how you as a researcher can accelerate the transformation. In mid-November 2021, innOsci (German) – the Stifterverband’s Forum for Open Innovation Culture, which was founded two years ago – published an interesting workbook entitled „Die Öffnung der Wissenschaft / Werkheft zur Gestaltung der Transformation“ (German; “The Opening of Science. Workbook on structuring the transformation”). The publication focuses on methods that can promote the opening of science. After all, there […]

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Greater Impact Without Paywalls: New Open Access Tool: Free Your Science
2. November 2021 , osguide

Greater Impact Without Paywalls: New Open Access Tool: Free Your Science

“Re-publish your paywalled work open access today for free!” – so lautet der Slogan des neuen Tools Free Your Science. Wie der Online-Helfer einfachen Open Access fördert, erfahren Sie in wenigen Schritten in diesem Blogpost. Free Your Science ist ein neues Tool, mit dem Sie Ihre bereits veröffentlichten Artikel mit wenigen Klicks im Open Access zugänglich machen können. Anders ausgedrückt: Es unterstützt Sie dabei, Ihre eigenen Publikationen aus hinderlichen Paywalls zu befreien und somit einem größeren Publikum zugänglich zu machen; für eine größere Reichweite und einen höheren Impact. So funktioniert Free Your Science In einem ersten Schritt hilft Free Your Science […]

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Open Economics Guide starts a blog: News, tips and tools for your success with Open Science
1. November 2021 osguide

Open Economics Guide starts a blog: News, tips and tools for your success with Open Science

The Open Economics Guide now includes its own blog with practice-based news, tool descriptions and step-for-step instructions! You will therefore experience Open Science in economics and business studies up close, and be able to reuse it more successfully. As from today, the guide will be supported by its own blog! The start of the blog provides yet another opportunity for economics and business studies researchers to get into Open Science. The articles will concentrate on the following topics: discussing current developments in the field of Open Science, introducing new tools and services as well as demonstrating how they function, practical worksheets for […]

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