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Add 'Open Access' tickbox to RefToolbar

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  • Problem: When adding references there is no option to flag them as open access
  • Proposed solution: Add a tickbox to RefToolbar (or just it's 'journal citation' section). When ticked |doi-access=free is added to the string produced
  • Who would benefit: Primarily the readers and editors of scientific articles and anyone else committed to 'open access'
  • Category: Citations
  • More comments: Scientific articles mostly use academic journals as references and >90% of these are pay-walled, however many editors focus on finding the 10% which are Open Access. Journal which are open access are clearly shown as such on the publisher website - we know what we're adding. Currently OA tags mostly end up getting added by 'Citation bot' but this is resource heavy.
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  • Status: Open
  • Proposer: Project Osprey (see Meta)

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