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Lean Library is a free end-to-end research tool that brings your library’s services and resources directly into your research workflow, no matter where you start your research. Whether you are discovering and accessing academic content or saving references, Lean Library puts your library right at the heart of every research journey. Instantly and legally unlock millions of academic articles, eBooks, and open access content, avoid paywalls, and receive customised guidance from your library. Save references, highlight and annotate content, get journal alerts, and build information literacy skills with article retraction alerts and trust ratings—all from within your browser.
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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.