Category: Tools

Find Free Open Access Literature and Stay Informed: Four pro Tips for EconBiz
30. May 2022 , osguide

Find Free Open Access Literature and Stay Informed: Four pro Tips for EconBiz

The specialist portal EconBiz provides access to business studies and economics literature, including many Open Access full texts and journals as well as Open Educational Resources. This blog post introduces the subject portal and shows you four features of EconBiz to simplify your search for Open Access publications. EconBiz is a portal for literature search in important German and international databases for business studies and economics, including the holdings of the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. It provides access to free and licensed full texts, for example to Open Access publications provided by the ZBW. Thus, EconBiz supports […]

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More Impact Through FAIR Research Data: These Tools Check the FAIRness of Your Data
25. January 2022 , Birgit Fingerle

More Impact Through FAIR Research Data: These Tools Check the FAIRness of Your Data

What do the FAIR principles mean in practice and how can they be applied correctly? There are a number of things to consider when preparing FAIR research data. Luckily, you do not have to do everything on your own. Some helpful tools support you. These analyse, for example, how FAIR your data already is and give you practical tips for improvement. If you publish your research data openly, transparently and thus FAIR for third parties, you will benefit from more visibility for your own work – and possibly from higher citation rates as a result. But how can research data […]

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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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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 in open access today for free!” – this is the slogan of the new tool Free Your Science. Find out how the online help promotes easy Open Access in a few steps via this blog post. Free Your Science is a new tool with which you can make already published articles accessible in Open Access with a few clicks. Or, put another way: It supports you in freeing your own publications from obstructive paywalls, thereby making them accessible to a wider public, for greater reach and a higher impact. This is how Free Your Science works In […]

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