What is Open Access Button? An interview with Joe McArthur

Cook, Eleanor; McArthur, Joe

doi:10.1080/0361526x.2017.1391152

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“…Perhaps due to increased accessibility, open-access articles are associated with greater downloads and citations (Fu & Hughey, 2019;Gershenson et al, 2020). The Open Access Button (https:// openaccessbutton.org/) is a tool for searching for open-access versions of articles on thousands of repositories (Cook & McArthur, 2017).…”

Section: Open Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Targeted Review of Open Practices in Special Education Publications

Cook

Dijk

Vargas

et al. 2023

Exceptional Children

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Open practices, such as preregistration, registered reports, open materials, open data, open analytic code, replication, open peer review, open access, and conflict-of-interest and funding statements, support the transparency, accessibility, and reproducibility of research and other scholarship. The purpose of this review was to examine the prevalence of these open practices in the special education literature. We reviewed a randomly selected sample of 250 articles published in special education journals in 2020. Results indicated that conflict-of-interest and funding statements were present in most articles; a small but meaningful proportion of articles provided open materials and were open access; and preregistration, registered reports, open data, open analytic code, open peer review, and replication were rarely or never observed. Recommendations for researching and supporting the use of open practices in special education scholarship are provided.

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Section: Open Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Targeted Review of Open Practices in Special Education Publications

Cook

Dijk

Vargas

et al. 2023

Exceptional Children

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“…Perhaps due to increased accessibility, open-access articles are associated with greater downloads and citations (Fu & Hughey, 2019;Gershenson et al, 2020). The Open Access Button (https://openaccessbutton.org/) is a tool for searching for open-access versions of articles on thousands of repositories (Cook & McArthur, 2017).…”

Section: A Systematic Review Of Open Practices In Special Education P...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Targeted Review of Open Practices in Special Education Publications

Cook¹,

Dijk²,

Carlisle³

2022

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Open practices such as preregistration, registered reports, open materials, open data, open analytic code, replication, open peer review, open access, and conflict-of-interest and funding statements support the transparency, accessibility, and reproducibility of research and other scholarship. The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the prevalence of these open practices in the special education literature. We reviewed a randomly selected sample of 250 articles published in special education journals in 2020. Results indicated that conflict-of-interest and funding statements were present in most articles; a small but meaningful proportion of articles provided open materials and were open access; and preregistration, registered reports, open data, open analytic code, open peer review, and replication were rarely or never observed. Recommendations for researching and supporting the use of open practices in special education scholarship are provided.

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“…4 Joe McArthur, one of the founders of the Open Access Button, said he decided to invent it after hitting paywalls after graduating. 5 JUNE 2020…”

Section: The Need For Open Access Finding Toolsmentioning

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At the Click of a Button

Azadbakht

Schultz

2020

ITAL

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A number of browser extension tools have emerged in the past decade aimed at helping information seekers find open versions of scholarly articles when they hit a paywall, including Open Access Button, Lazy Scholar, Kopernio, and Unpaywall. While librarians have written numerous reviews of these products, no one has yet conducted a usability study on these tools. This article details a usability study involving six undergraduate students and six faculty at a large public research university in the United States. Participants were tasked with installing each of the four tools as well as trying them out on three test articles. Both students and faculty tended to favor simple, clean design elements and straightforward functionality that enabled them to use the tools with limited instruction. Participants familiar with other browser extensions gravitated towards tools like Open Access Button, whereas those less experienced with other extensions preferred tools that load automatically, such as Unpaywall.

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What is Open Access Button? An interview with Joe McArthur

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A Targeted Review of Open Practices in Special Education Publications

A Targeted Review of Open Practices in Special Education Publications

A Targeted Review of Open Practices in Special Education Publications

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