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Get simple access to scholarly material whenever, wherever you are.
The Library Access browser extension provides quick and simple access to study material licensed by your library. The extension will notify when you are on a website that contains licensed material. A single click will open that site via the library, ensuring you’ve got access.
The Library Access browser extension simplifies searching for relevant sources and facilitates quality study time. A few quick clicks will get you started.
By installing this extension, you agree to the Privacy Policy at https://www.leanlibrary.com/privacy-policy/item181.
The extension always doesn’t work. Each time I wanna use the extension, I need to wait for quite long time before it starts to work. Hope Library Access could improve the extension to be faster and more stable.
Ez a kiegeszito nagyon segiti a tanulasomat. Javallott!
This extension is super helpful!
Slows down Google Chrome (Version 88.0.4324.104 (Official Build) (64-bit)) enormously. Cannot recommend.
Works fairly well most of the time but every now end then, it just uses a lot of CPU even when I’m not actually doing anything in Chrome. This hasn’t changed over the last few months (and last few versions of Chrome), it seems to happen when I wake my laptop up after it being in sleep mode but I do that a lot so that might be a coincidence.
Great tool for my studies and research!
Something broken in update – tries to take over google search so that it is unable.
Very handy when i’m on websites that are not traditionally supported by my university, but somehow are anyway.
Useful but uses up 500Mb+ of RAM on “idle”. Almost as if this extension is mining crypto or something while it’s installed and running.
Very useful extension, hence the extra stars, but makes the chrome browser extremely slow, hence only two.
Helpful app but you need to either change the default so that the access pop-up doesn’t not come up unprompted OR provide users that option. More often than note, this pop-up is super annoying and it would be helpful to just be able to click the icon when you need help with institutional access to an article.
Using most up to date version of chrome
Great premise but causing continuously HUGE CPU usage, making Chrome unbearably slow. Defaulting to whitelisting only known journal sites might help. Developer: try using this on an old or mobile processored computer with more than a few tabs open.
Accessing to uni library resources are good. However, at some point it blocks out your regular internet. Meaning you can’t load pages using your browser, at least in chrome. I am using Ubuntu 18.04 with Chrome.
It is a great idea, unfortunately if I activate this extension with Chromium (linux computer), internet stops working on chromium at some point. The solution is either to reinitilize chormium or stop the extension. Quite unfortunately because it took me a long time to find the problem with my internet conection.
Works remarkably well! I always get instant access to my university hospital’s library via this extension. Works as intended.
We have access to a lot of journals from our university using eduroam. Been using this to access papers from home recently and its a very easy process. Makes life easier. Will hold on a better review until i use it more
I hate that I am forced to use this extension for remote library access. It intermittently slows my internet speeds to unusable levels (with sites that should not go through a proxy, such as Twitter, taking over 60 seconds to load) and increases CPU and memory impact of Chrome significantly.
It’s a very strange extension. First, there is no way to selectively use it for specific pages. It often applies itself to pages when not needed, messing up the functionality of those pages. Then I need to go to Extensions settings to manually disable it altogether. Second, it does not work reliably. There are pages where it activates, I see the icon is green, but the content is still not available, or magazine web site still shows “sign in” and “subscribe” links. I am on the verge to remove it completely, but keeping just in case as a last resort.
At the minimum it needs a blacklist for websites, the popup is showing even on pages like Wikipedia. However, a way better option would be to be able to disable the popup, and show the extension as “access available” in another color when the popup would normally show. The website actually describes this feature, but says the institution has control over this? Why? Just let me supress the popups please!
Bijzonder handige browser-extensie. Stuurt je automatisch naar de full-text versie van een artikel of biedt je de mogelijkheid om het aan te vragen via de bibliotheek van je hogeschool of universiteit.
Needs a “ignore this site” feature. I have my own subscription to WSJ and this addon prevents me from logging in.
Great application. I can now easily access papers without establish a VPN or remote desktop connection with my University. Two times I had an error at a certain site, but the responding time of the support teams from lean library and the TU Delft (my University) is very fast (within two hours) and both times they could fix the problem directly.
Convenient when you need it but a huge pain when you don’t. This extension makes accessing academic papers etc. easy, but if there if you have your own subscription to said material, this extension will almost always override your account causing HUGE headaches. E.g. I have a personal subscription to The Economist I cannot access without uninstalling this silly extension.
Unfortunately having the extension active used 70% of my CPU, making my fan shriek, my laptop overheat, and eventually chrome would stop responding.
Disabled the extension and voila– fan stopped and chrome went back to normal.
Unfortunate because its a good idea for an extension and its a very useful too when it works (especially as a thesis-writing master’s student). Too bad it uses all your CPU.
Slows down every request to every website substantially. I *always* see “waiting for extension Library Access” at the bottom when I open a new link.