Ever wonder, why folks work on free software? It is the joy they feel, when someone sees value in what they do :) Thank you to the user who wrote this support request! If your library doesn't use Open Access Helper yet, contact me to have your details added… www.oahelper.org

🚀 Open Access Helper 2025.3 is here 🚀

Bug fixes include: if no institution selected / extension not configured:

🔹 Open Access Button will show, if no OA version found
🔹 OpenCitations shows Timed Cited
🔹 core.ac.uk alternatives work again

#OpenAccess #BrowserExtensions #BrowserAddOn

Es ist zunächst erstmal geschafft: mit der aktuellen Umstellung der Ausleihe läuft die SuUB Bremen jetzt ganz ohne PICA LBS komplett unter Folio.
Für die Nutzerverwaltung verwenden wir KeyCloak mit einem eigenen Nutzerkontosystem, das aber gern auch nachgenutzt werden kann.
Das Folio System wird für uns von der Verbundzentrale des GBV bereitgestellt - vielen Dank dafür!
https://www.suub.uni-bremen.de/ueber-uns/neues-aus-der-suub/operation-am-offenen-herzen-wechsel-auf-ein-neues-bibliotheksmanagementsystem/

Today I worked on creating some end to end test with https://pptr.dev (Puppeteer) and https://jestjs.io (Jest) - this is an important step to ensure I can test better, more and faster for future updates!

🎉 New Year, new resolutions!

Help your library users easily access Open Access and subscription content with Open Access Helper.

Works seamlessly with your link resolver & remote access solution, right in their mobile & desktop browsers.

Simplify research and support Open Access! Learn more: www.oahelper.org 🚀

#OpenAccess #LibraryTech

Im Open Economics Guide bietet die ZBW einen übersichtlichen Katalog von mehr als 130 aktuellen Open-Science-Tools an, die alle kostenlos nutzbar sind! #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData
➡️ https://openeconomics.zbw.eu/tools

Publishers are doing a good job at alerting you about retracted articles, yet I am considering of adding valuable data from https://retractionwatch.com to Open Access Helper... Any thoughts about this?

Our dear friends at Apple have been amazing today. Had to submit two minor bug fix releases today and they both got reviewed within hours. Happy Holidays everyone.

Open Access Helper Version 2025.1 was released today. Kind of an early new year’s present. Get it from your browser’s addon store, e.g. https://otz.li/2/chrome or for your iPhone / iPad https://otz.li/2/oahelper. Happy Christmas! חֲנוּכָּה שַׂמֵחַ Chanukah sameach!

If you’ve got a lot of traveling coming up for the holidays, how about nearly two hours of 100% fresh content from the NosillaCast?

We’ve got @spsheridan’s Night Before Christmas, Steve Mattan on running local Large Language Models, @bart on smart home humidity, and then back with me for Security Bits!

https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2024/12/nc-1024/

Ever wonder what browsers are popular with Open Access Helper? Chrome 57%, Edge 20%, Safari 14% and Firefox 9%.

The amount of joy https://www.festivitas.app has brought me is hard to describe. Thank you @simonbs.dev

Work on “Open Access Helper” is progressing well. Looking forward to releasing this update just before the new year. I might be cheeky and update the version number to 2025.1 :)

Busy weekend. My app “Spesensatz” is ready for 2025 and will release just after midnight on 1 January.

⚡️ New Blog Post:

“Selling Outside of the Mac App Store, Part I: It’s been a while…”

https://blog.eternalstorms.at/2024/12/06/selling-outside-of-the-mac-app-store-part-i-its-been-a-while/

#indie #indiedev

Open Access Helper is a really cool tool that helps you find free research papers. Sometimes you find an interesting paper, but it's behind a paywall. Open Access Helper checks to see if there's a free version of that paper available and then gives you a link to it.

Did you know that Open Access Helper got a shout out in the following publication?

Heibi, I., Moretti, A., Peroni, S. et al. The OpenCitations Index: description of a database providing open citation data. Scientometrics (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05160-7

Thank you to the authors for mentioning my tool!

iPad mostly behaved like a very big iPhone so far, in the not too distant future it will behave like an iPad app should and use a NavigationSplitView - for you and I that means, in Landscape, search result list on the left, main record on the right, equals improved usability!

One of the features I am super stoked about, but that needs more work is a improved search history view. "Advanced Searches" currently show as an ugly string, this update will parse those strings and provide enhanced clarity. Not quite happy with the design, but I am getting there...

While enjoying a vacation, I was hard at work to bring some new features to Open Access Helper. It'll take quite a few weeks before you can text these features yourself.

* Support for DOI searches (OpenAlex & EPMC)
* Support for Citation Information (OpenAlex only)
* Worked on a whole lot of bug fixes
* Worked on improvements for iPad
* Behind the scenes, move to SwiftData