New statistics on full text availability using Lazy Scholar
I ran an analysis on 500,000+ recent records to see how often Lazy Scholar finds at least one free full text. This value is 36-41%. Let me break that down a bit. 36% reflects the percent of free full texts that are definitively free to view to the user, but does not...Lazy Scholar for Firefox
The Firefox version of Lazy Scholar is back: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazy-scholar/ It will look and function similar to the Chrome version. Firefox is in the process of revamping their extension platform to support Chrome extensions, so if...“Advanced” vs “Lite” Mode
As of Lazy Scholar version 1.5 for Chrome, there is now an option to only show full text availability if you are not interested in the other metrics and links Lazy Scholar shows. You can currently toggle between each by right clicking the icon and hitting the...How Lazy Scholar now costs ~$1 per month to run
Note: I don’t have a background in backend web development (or programming in general for that matter), but I’ve had to do some quick learning recently to mitigate the growing cost of running Lazy Scholar. I hope this post will serve to help others save...Subscribe
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