I refer students and colleagues to unpaywall.org - they have a great chrome extension that will take you to open access versions of papers with a single click w

I refer students and colleagues to unpaywall.org - they have a great chrome extension that will take you to open access versions of papers with a single click when you're viewing the paper on pubmed, the publisher's site, etc. The proportion of papers that are OA is rapidly increasing so you can often find a suitable open access reference. With regards to OA in general, the proportion of OA papers is rapidly increasing. While what Elbakyan has done has forced the field and society at large into a conversation about the availability of publicly funded research publications, the many proponents of OA have been working very hard to forward OA and have made huge progress in this area. All most people need to do is wait a few more years and it is likely that the majority of research publications will be OA. Is what she doing inspiring? Yes and no. Personally, I find the Elseveir boycotts by Germany and Sweden to be more inspiring, as those represent large groups of individuals trying to enact change through more principled means.