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<p>The <b>Open Access Button</b> is a browser bookmarklet which registers when people hit a <a href="Paywall" title="Paywall">paywall</a> to an academic article and cannot access it.<sup id="cite_ref-about_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is supported by Medsin UK and the Right to Research Coalition.<sup id="cite_ref-about_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>A prototype was built at a <a href="BMJ" class="mw-redirect" title="BMJ">BMJ</a> Hack Weekend.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bmj_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bmj-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All code is openly available online at <a href="GitHub" title="GitHub">GitHub</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>A beta version of the Open Access Button was officially launched on 18 November 2013 at the Berlin 11 Satellite Conference for Students & Early Stage Researchers.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It records instances of hitting a paywall, and also provides options to try to locate an <a href="Open_access" title="Open access">open access</a> version of the article.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2014 a <a href="Crowdfunding" title="Crowdfunding">crowdfunding</a> campaign was started to build a second version.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The second version of the button was launched on 21 October 2014 as part of <a href="Open_Access_Week" title="Open Access Week">Open Access Week</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In February 2015 the Open Access Button and its co-founders, David Carroll and Joseph McArthur ("the button boys"), were awarded a SPARC Innovator Award by the <a href="Scholarly_Publishing_and_Academic_Resources_Coalition" title="Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition">Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition</a> (SPARC).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The third version of the button was launched on 28 October 2016, again, as part of open access week.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="12ft" title="12ft">12ft</a></li>
<li><a href="Anna's_Archive" title="Anna's Archive">Anna's Archive</a></li>
<li><a href="Bypass_Paywalls_Clean" title="Bypass Paywalls Clean">Bypass Paywalls Clean</a></li>
<li><a href="Eprint_button" class="mw-redirect" title="Eprint button">Eprint button</a></li>
<li><a href="Kopernio.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Kopernio.com">Kopernio.com</a> plug-in search tool for PDFs</li>
<li><a href="Unpaywall" class="mw-redirect" title="Unpaywall">Unpaywall</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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<ul><li><a href="History_of_open_access" title="History of open access">History</a></li>
<li><a href="Timeline_of_the_open-access_movement" title="Timeline of the open-access movement">Timeline</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Gratis_versus_libre" title="Gratis versus libre"><i>Gratis</i> versus <i>libre</i></a></li>
<li><a href="Subscription_business_model" title="Subscription business model">Subscription business model</a></li>
<li><a href="Subscribe_to_Open" title="Subscribe to Open">Subscribe to Open</a></li>
<li><a href="Paywall" title="Paywall">Paywall</a></li>
<li><a href="Copyright_transfer_agreement" title="Copyright transfer agreement">Copyright transfer agreement</a></li>
<li><a href="Academic_journal" title="Academic journal">Academic journal</a></li>
<li><a href="Scientific_journal" title="Scientific journal">Scientific journal</a></li>
<li><a href="Manuscript_(publishing)" title="Manuscript (publishing)">Manuscript</a></li>
<li><a href="Preprint" title="Preprint">Preprint</a></li>
<li><a href="Postprint" title="Postprint">Postprint</a></li>
<li><a href="Article_processing_charge" title="Article processing charge">Article processing charge</a></li>
<li><a href="Predatory_publishing" title="Predatory publishing">Predatory publishing</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Statements</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Budapest_Open_Access_Initiative" title="Budapest Open Access Initiative">Budapest Open Access Initiative</a></li>
<li><a href="Berlin_Declaration_on_Open_Access_to_Knowledge_in_the_Sciences_and_Humanities" title="Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities">Berlin Declaration</a></li>
<li><a href="Bethesda_Statement_on_Open_Access_Publishing" title="Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing">Bethesda Statement</a></li>
<li><a href="San_Francisco_Declaration_on_Research_Assessment" title="San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment">DORA</a></li>
<li><a href="Durham_Statement_on_Open_Access_to_Legal_Scholarship" title="Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship">Durham Statement</a></li>
<li><a href="Geneva_Declaration_on_the_Future_of_the_World_Intellectual_Property_Organization" title="Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization">Geneva Declaration</a></li>
<li><a href="NIH_Public_Access_Policy" title="NIH Public Access Policy">NIH Public Access Policy</a></li>
<li><a href="Research_Works_Act" title="Research Works Act">Research Works Act</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Strategies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Self-archiving" title="Self-archiving">Self-archiving</a></li>
<li><a href="Open-access_mandate" title="Open-access mandate">Open-access mandate</a></li>
<li><a href="Open-access_repository" title="Open-access repository">Open-access repository</a></li>
<li><a href="Hybrid_open-access_journal" title="Hybrid open-access journal">Hybrid open-access journal</a></li>
<li><a href="Delayed_open-access_journal" title="Delayed open-access journal">Delayed open-access journal</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Projects and<br>organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="The_Cost_of_Knowledge" title="The Cost of Knowledge">The Cost of Knowledge</a></li>
<li><a href="Creative_Commons" title="Creative Commons">Creative Commons</a></li>
<li><a href="Directory_of_Open_Access_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Directory of Open Access Books">Directory of Open Access Books</a></li>
<li><a href="Directory_of_Open_Access_Journals" title="Directory of Open Access Journals">Directory of Open Access Journals</a></li>
<li><a href="Initiative_for_Open_Citations" title="Initiative for Open Citations">Initiative for Open Citations</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_Access_Scholarly_Publishing_Association" title="Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association">Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association</a></li>
<li><a href="OpenAIRE" class="mw-redirect" title="OpenAIRE">OpenAIRE</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_Archives_Initiative" title="Open Archives Initiative">Open Archives Initiative</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_Knowledge_Foundation" title="Open Knowledge Foundation">Open Knowledge Foundation</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_Society_Foundations" title="Open Society Foundations">Open Society Foundations</a></li>
<li><a href="Plan_S" title="Plan S">Plan S</a></li>
<li><a href="Public_Library_of_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Library of Science">Public Library of Science</a></li>
<li><a href="Public_Knowledge_Project" title="Public Knowledge Project">Public Knowledge Project</a></li>
<li><a href="Registry_of_Open_Access_Repositories" title="Registry of Open Access Repositories">Registry of Open Access Repositories</a></li>
<li><a href="Scholarly_Publishing_and_Academic_Resources_Coalition" title="Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition">Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition</a></li>
<li><a href="SciELO" title="SciELO">SciELO</a></li>
<li><a href="Sci-Hub" title="Sci-Hub">Sci-Hub</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By country</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Open_access_in_Australia" title="Open access in Australia">Australia</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Austria" title="Open access in Austria">Austria</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Belgium" title="Open access in Belgium">Belgium</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Canada" title="Open access in Canada">Canada</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Denmark" title="Open access in Denmark">Denmark</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_France" title="Open access in France">France</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Germany" title="Open access in Germany">Germany</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Greece" title="Open access in Greece">Greece</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Hungary" title="Open access in Hungary">Hungary</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_India" title="Open access in India">India</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Open access in the Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Italy" title="Open access in Italy">Italy</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_the_Netherlands" title="Open access in the Netherlands">Netherlands</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_New_Zealand" title="Open access in New Zealand">New Zealand</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Norway" title="Open access in Norway">Norway</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Poland" title="Open access in Poland">Poland</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Portugal" title="Open access in Portugal">Portugal</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Russia" title="Open access in Russia">Russia</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_South_Africa" title="Open access in South Africa">South Africa</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Spain" title="Open access in Spain">Spain</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Sweden" title="Open access in Sweden">Sweden</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_access_in_Ukraine" title="Open access in Ukraine">Ukraine</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Access_to_Knowledge_movement" title="Access to Knowledge movement">Access to Knowledge movement</a></li>
<li><a href="Access2Research" title="Access2Research">Access2Research</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_open-access_journals" title="List of open-access journals">List of open-access journals</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Open_content" class="mw-redirect" title="Open content">Open content</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_data" title="Open data">Open data</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_education" title="Open education">Open education</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_government" title="Open government">Open government</a></li>
<li><a href="Open-source_hardware" title="Open-source hardware">Open hardware</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_knowledge" title="Open knowledge">Open knowledge</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_science" title="Open science">Open science</a></li>
<li><a href="Open-source-software_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Open-source-software movement">Open source</a></li></ul>
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