Lean Library

David de Muinck Keizer2021年10月6日

★★★★★2

For many papers, its shows the text "Full-Text Achieved You are currently on a Full Text article. Good luck studying!", while the full text isn't shown anywhere. There's no button anywhere on the page or in the plugin to view the full text. The full text certainly isn't displayed anywhere. The original paywall on the page is still in tact. I have seen this at many sites. The amount of times that the plugin actually provides a button to download the pdf is very limited. Please fix this bug. Otherwise this plugin is useless.

Alex K9onit2021年10月6日

★★★★★2

Slows down my browser when installed, so eventually uninstalled it. The extension kept taking me to my University page so that I can't browse on the publisher pages that I want to. Kept popping up with suggestions?? that I don't need. Avoid!

Matthew Hawkes2021年9月9日

★★★★★5

As a librarian, I've used LEAN for around 3 years now. During the past eighteen months, it has saved me a huge amount of time while working from home. Granted, I will be spending more time on retrieving articles than most but I am yet to find a downside to this tool - I recommend it to all my students and the feedback is generally great. I work on a relatively high-spec machine but also run with a huge number of tabs / programs open and haven't noticed performance issues mentioned by others. Do sometimes find the pop-ups a bit slow though (i.e. the webpage has loaded but the pop-up takes a few more seconds). Disclaimer: while the above is my honest opinion, it is important to note that I have contact with the developers as LEAN is a product we offer at my university. I believe it to be an incredibly useful tool, but want to flag this relationship in the spirit of transparency.

Robert-Jan Pierik2021年5月24日

★★★★★1

Doesn't work in maybe 80% of the time

MDT_2862021年5月12日

★★★★★1

I need the extension for Uni, but it makes chrome extermely laggy and unresponsive. And that is on a high spec computer. I have to uninstall the extension everytime I finished using it, in order to use chrome comfortably.

Joseph Smith2021年5月5日

★★★★★5

I find the extension very useful and it makes my research journey much smoother than before. Would recommend it.

AS Z2021年5月4日

★★★★★1

While all my other extensions work fine, Library Access doesn't seem to work anymore, either with Firefox or Chrome browsers. When I click on the icon, nothing happens, it's blank. I am no longer logged in through my university log-ins while I visit a site the university has subscribed to. I don't know what to do...

Dóra Schuller2021年5月4日

★★★★★2

Very bad user experience. When turned on, this app also wants me to log in to access publicly available articles and Wikipedia pages! Every time I load a page, it takes me away from there to the login, so I have to keep it turned off so I can browse peacefully. Also, in some sites I have to log in 3 times to download an article.

Dave Gerrard2021年4月22日

★★★★★1

Should come with a health warning. Breaks links. Pollutes your referencing software. Academics should not use. Clicking the extension gives access but changes the URL in my browser bar. As someone who likes to copy sources by copy and paste, this is a fail. That URL is now useless for anyone outside my institution. Worse, I use a Zotero extension to store and manage references. The modified URLs then get imported into my referencing software. I doubt very much whether they will work in a few years time.

Yibo Chen2021年2月11日

★★★★★3

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.