Mastodawn

Open Access Helper Jun 28, 2025

I had a great time at #bid25 in #bremen this week. Listening to librarians from around Germany (and beyond) always gives me bright new ideas.

Did you know that I work with Prof. Dankert on Sesam2050 - a curated bibliography of literature relating to children and youth literature in Germany after 1945.

This might be a small, niche bibliography, but thanks to #vufind it has worldwide reach. I am both amazed and humbled by these statistics.

Visit https://www.sesam2050-literaturdatenbank.de to check it out!

Open Access Helper Feb 2, 2025

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 Jan 11, 2025

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!

Puppeteer | Puppeteer

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Open Access Helper Dec 31, 2024

🎉 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

Open Access Helper Dec 26, 2024

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?

Retraction Watch

Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

Retraction Watch

Open Access Helper Dec 21, 2024

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

Open Access Helper Nov 27, 2024

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!

Open Access Helper Nov 27, 2024

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...

Open Access Helper Nov 27, 2024

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

Open Access Helper Oct 19, 2024

Sometimes a single e-mail can make a weekend! Thank you so much !

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