Lean Library Lean Library

Productivity
Version: 2023.4.1
Last Update: 2023-03-09

User Reviews


avatar Laura Tobler
2021-10-29

Lean Library helps me a lot in finding articles. Today I was referred to a free alternative when I encountered a technical error on the publisher's website. Often Lean Library surprises me with news of an eBook in my library that I didn't know about yet.

avatar Rory Wood
2021-10-27

Really useful for accessing my uni library resources when working from home. Super convenient.

avatar Tim O'Neill
2021-10-27

Massively simplifies the process of getting access to electronic resources provided by my academic library. I particularly love the ability to unlock open access alternatives when you hit paywalls too.

avatar Christina M
2021-10-20

Very useful for research and finding resources but slowed down my keyboard response on Google Chrome and made using Google Docs and other websites very laggy. Got so frustrating I unfortunately had to disable the extension. Very disappointing. If this issue were to be fixed, I'd redownload it.

avatar David de Muinck Keizer
2021-10-06

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.

avatar Alex K9onit
2021-10-06

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!

avatar Matthew Smith
2021-09-09

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.

avatar Mark Lukacs
2021-06-01

breaks all the time

avatar Robert-Jan Pierik
2021-05-24

Doesn't work in maybe 80% of the time

avatar Neddy
2021-05-12

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.

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