Lean Library

Name: Lean Library
Rating: 0 (0 reviews)
Author: Lean Library B.V.

Education

Only for Mac

Free

Ages

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Lean Library B.V.
Language

EN
English
Size

21.7
MB

Mac

Providing an uninterrupted research rhythm 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. Ready to start using Lean Library? Install the extension, select your institution and begin researching! Even if you aren’t affiliated with an institution, you can still get quick and seamless redirection to open access materials absolutely free by downloading the extension and selecting Lean Library Open as your library.Please note, the Lean Library browser extension works together with Lean Library Workspace. Create an account at workspace.leanlibrary.com. Coming from Sciwheel? Welcome! Lean Library now includes all your favourite Sciwheel features, plus much more. Install today to get started.

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Update?
12/11/2019

Willionvii
Why couldn't I update? App Store told me I could.

Developer Response
Hello,Thanks for your feedback and we are sorry to hear this.   In order to investigate this a bit more, we will need some more details about your Mac set-up and the version of the extension you were using, when updating the extension.Please contact us at support@leanlibrary.com and we would be very happy to look into this and help resolve it for you Best wishesLean Library team
Update?
12/11/2019

Willionvii

Why couldn't I update? App Store told me I could.
Developer Response 12/08/2022
Hello,Thanks for your feedback and we are sorry to hear this.   In order to investigate this a bit more, we will need some more details about your Mac set-up and the version of the extension you were using, when updating the extension.Please contact us at support@leanlibrary.com and we would be very happy to look into this and help resolve it for you Best wishesLean Library team
Extremely Poor Privacy
04/17/2020

Opposed to Nicknames :)
Requires the following permissions:"Can read sensitive information from webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards on all webpages."This is severe. I refuse to give this app access to all my passwords.

Developer Response
Hello,Thanks for reaching out to us and we understand your concerns. With some of our core features (eBooks alternatives, article alternatives, highlight and search), our extension does require a few details to provide you with a seamless service.  In order to function, the extension needs to scrape the page for academic material IDs (like ISBN and DOI) and based on this information you getting redirected to a full text location.  We can assure you, we do not collect any personal data and we also use highly advanced regular expressions when scraping the pages to make sure our extension only picks up DOIs and ISBNs.  You can find more information about our data privacy commitment on our website : https://www.leanlibrary.com/data-privacy/  Best wishesLean Library team
Extremely Poor Privacy
04/17/2020

Opposed to Nicknames :)

Requires the following permissions:"Can read sensitive information from webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards on all webpages."This is severe. I refuse to give this app access to all my passwords.
Developer Response 12/08/2022
Hello,Thanks for reaching out to us and we understand your concerns. With some of our core features (eBooks alternatives, article alternatives, highlight and search), our extension does require a few details to provide you with a seamless service.  In order to function, the extension needs to scrape the page for academic material IDs (like ISBN and DOI) and based on this information you getting redirected to a full text location.  We can assure you, we do not collect any personal data and we also use highly advanced regular expressions when scraping the pages to make sure our extension only picks up DOIs and ISBNs.  You can find more information about our data privacy commitment on our website : https://www.leanlibrary.com/data-privacy/  Best wishesLean Library team
Why does my library recommend this?
04/11/2022

Actual Grownup
I would give it more stars if it could install, but it just hangs. It says it needs Safari 14.0, but I have Safari 14.0.

Developer Response
Hello there,I am sorry to hear about the inconvenience this is causing you. Unfortunately, Safari update has been problematic. We have received a few more reports on the same issue and we have been investigating this with Apple. We found out what happens is that during the macOS / Safari update, some files were incorrectly left from the previous version, and that is why the extension does not work and it cannot be reinstalled properly. We have identified BigSur reinstall to be the only way to fix it for now, until a follow-up update does not come from Apple, which fixes this issue.I am sorry for not being able to provide you with a better solution. Unfortunately, as the issue is with the Apple updates. In this case, please kindly consider using the extension in any other major browsers, as they should work without any issue (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, EDGE). I hope this issue will be fixed soon. Kind regards,Clare
Why does my library recommend this?
04/11/2022

Actual Grownup

I would give it more stars if it could install, but it just hangs. It says it needs Safari 14.0, but I have Safari 14.0.
Developer Response 05/23/2022
Hello there,I am sorry to hear about the inconvenience this is causing you. Unfortunately, Safari update has been problematic. We have received a few more reports on the same issue and we have been investigating this with Apple. We found out what happens is that during the macOS / Safari update, some files were incorrectly left from the previous version, and that is why the extension does not work and it cannot be reinstalled properly. We have identified BigSur reinstall to be the only way to fix it for now, until a follow-up update does not come from Apple, which fixes this issue.I am sorry for not being able to provide you with a better solution. Unfortunately, as the issue is with the Apple updates. In this case, please kindly consider using the extension in any other major browsers, as they should work without any issue (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, EDGE). I hope this issue will be fixed soon. Kind regards,Clare
rlly good
04/23/2024

bobawwwww
it is rlly good, idk why the review is so bad
rlly good
04/23/2024

bobawwwww

it is rlly good, idk why the review is so bad

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