Shahul Ameen has developed OAses, a nifty Open Access Toolbar. From the web site:
OAses, a toolbar for Internet Explorer, is designed to make internet searching easier for students, academicians and scientists. OAses searches many open access resources, free databases, and search engines. The toolbar is free to download and use, easy to install, and requires no registration.
Among the sources that OAses will search are OAIster, the Directory of Open Access Journals, Creative Commons, Project Gutenberg, FindArticles, PubMed Central, and a handful of the major search engines. OAses supports most of the high-end features you may be used to e.g. from the Google toolbar, such as browsing the target resources, highlighting search terms, dragging search terms from the browser to the searchbox, search histories, pop-up blocking, and cookie-clearing. For more details, see the FAQ.
Ameen is an M.D. and Senior Resident at the Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/05/2005 11:53:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
