<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-1f28d0a4-d9fe-ffd7-17ab-e86476d04d20"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our nonprofit Impactstory just released Unpaywall, an open-source Chrome/Firefox extension that links you to OA as you browse research articles. Hit a paywall? No problem: click the green tab, read it free. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Here's why it's game changing: it's not just great for OA Nerds like all of us, it's great for EVERYONE. People just trying to get their work done, but stuck behind paywalls. It's easy, pretty, and brings the power of legal #OA straight to make lives better.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’ve had thousands of installations in our first few days, and we’re we’re aiming for ten thousand by the end of the month. We want everyone in the world to have a “read it free” button next to the “pay us money” button on research articles, powered by open access in repositories worldwide.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’d love your help spreading the word. </span><a href="http://unpaywall.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Install it,</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> tweet it, email it, tell your friends. And let us know what you think...we’re still improving Unpaywall daily.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks, and let’s keep fighting for open access together!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jason and Heather</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">@impactstory</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ps we couldn’t help it, it’s still great for OA Nerds like us: we put an an Expert Setting in there that shows you which papers are gold or green OA :)</span></p><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">pps apologies for cross-posting</span></span><div><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></span><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br clear="all"></span></font><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>--</div>Heather Piwowar<div>cofounder of <a href="http://impactstory.org/" target="_blank">Impactstory</a>: share the full story of your research impact.</div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/researchremix" target="_blank">@researchremix</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ImpactStory" target="_blank">@Impactstory</a><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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