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If you’re of the mindset that knowledge should be freely accessible to as many humans as possible, paywalls for academic journals can be downright frustrating. Now a free browser extension is promising to bust through those paywalls wherever possible.

Unpaywall was launched earlier this month by the open source not-for-profit Impactstory – funded by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation – and it’s already making a splash in the traditional publishing industry.

Install the plug-in on your Chrome or Firefox desktop browser, and it will start displaying a little lock symbol whenever you’re on the landing page of an article in an academic journal.

If the plug-in can find a freely accessible full-text copy of the paper you’re looking at, the lock symbol turns from grey to green, and you can simply click on it to get the PDF. If the lock is gold, the article you’re reading already has an open access licence.

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Sarajevo, Bosnia - 1992: Shrapnel wounds on the face of a frightened boy in a hospital during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992. (Photo by Tom Stoddart/Getty Images Reportage)

An international criminal court in The Hague, Netherlands, today convicted Radovan Karadzic, the former leader of the breakaway Bosnian Serb Republic, of 10 counts related to Bosnian War and siege of its capital, Sarajevo. The charges include extermination, persecution, forcible transfer, terror and hostage-taking during Karadzic’s four-year rule.

He was also convicted of one of two genocide counts connected to the murder of approximately 8,000 Bosnians at Srebrenica in 1995.

Reportage photographer Tom Stoddart traveled to Sarajevo before the start of the war to document the the breakup of Yugoslavia; his resulting work was published around the world. Returning a year later for The Sunday Times Magazine of London, Tom was seriously injured in heavy fighting around the Bosnian Parliament buildings. In 1993, having recovered from his injuries, Tom returned to Sarajevo to report on the hardship of life in the city during a freezing winter under siege. This trip cemented Tom’s interest in a city that he returned to several times up until the Dayton Peace Accord in 1995, and well after.

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