Our retired tools and projects helped shape how we design, what we build, and how we share our work today. They’re no longer active, but each played a role in advancing Open Access since OA.Works’ beginning as the Open Access Button in 2013.
Open Access delivery
Get around paywalls in a click
As our first tool launched in 2013, the Open Access Button helped people find free, legal copies of research articles by searching the web and contacting authors directly. It could be used on the website, through browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox, or an embeddable widget. Over the course of a decade, it had been integrated into thousands of institutional library systems around the world.
Inter-library loans
Deliver access without subscriptions
Launched in 2019, InstantILL made interlibrary loan simpler and more affordable without relying on costly journal subscription bundles, often known as “Big Deals” with publishers. Available as an easy-to-integrate widget, it helped power the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic through its implementation on the IFLA’s RSCVD.org.
