Is Open Research Button safe?

Clean risk

Finds free, legal PDF versions of academic papers from their DOI.

This extension detects the DOI of a scientific paper you are viewing and checks whether a legal open access version is available. When a version is found, clicking the orange button lets you download the PDF.

0Risk
Who publishes it

PaperPanda - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Publisher
PaperPanda
Declared legal entity
PaperPanda
Registered address
Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8PB, GB

Same store account

1 other listing published from this account, 70k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

Shared hosts - 4 hostnames

Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.

scholar.archive.org
Also called by 2 other listings: tiny_isotope, ScienceHelper (download millions of papers)
oadoi.org
Also called by 3 other listings, including tiny_isotope, ScienceHelper (download millions of papers)
oa.mg
Also called by 4 other listings, including tiny_isotope, ScienceHelper (download millions of papers), OA.mg
openaccessbutton.org
Also called by 5 other listings

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

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Updated 15 October 2026dacjlklfannlijcjfljgkieikajciabg