Bookmarklet for MyAccess, UofT libraries
I really should be studying, but I made my first bookmarklet. The problem I tried to solve: When students of University of Toronto sit at home using Google Scholar to search for, say, information on the text book publishing industry in Swaziland, they often arrive at articles that are subscription only. However, usually they do have access to these through the library, using a system called MyAaccess. For most webpages, especially JSTOR and Ingenta Connect, adding .myaccess.library.utoronto.ca to the domain works, for for example if I find a JSTOR article with the following URL:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-7484…
you change it into
http://links.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/sici?sici=0010-7484….
and voila, it works. A bit annoying however; and no longer necessary. Drag this bookmarklet: MyAccess to your toolbar (should work for most browsers), and just click that when you’re at a JSTOR or Ingenta page (might work with others). Pure magic.
I know that with for example SpringerLink, which keeps coming up with good articles, it doesn’t work. If I have time one day, I might sit down and make a more sophisticated version. For now, have fun.
Stian
February 19th, 2007 @ 12:41 pm
Hi,
Have tested it and it works fine. Also very fast. But that can be becuase I have used the dump of a very small wiki (3,5mb)
System;
GNU/Linux Ubuntu 06.10
Installion done of "ruby" and "p7zip-full" (did not work with "p7zip") with synaptic
It did not worked at first because I had not put the dump in the same subdirectory.
That did give the output;
Initializing…
./wiki-lib.rb:29:in `initialize': undefined method `+' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from ./wiki-html.rb:49
If that can maybe put a notice in it like ***Make sure you have put the wiki-dump.7z file in the same directory as wiki-html.rb ***
June 28th, 2011 @ 7:36 pm
Hey Stian -
What a super cool tool! I tried to link to your bookmark applet, and got a 404 error. Any tips?
Cheer and thanks!
Rebecca
December 14th, 2011 @ 3:18 pm
Stian, I’ve been using this tool almost daily since I found out about it (6 months ago?). What a time-saver! How can we get this wonderful little bookmarklet all the use it deserves?
Okay, I’ll go tweet it now. That’s one way. But there must be others…
Thanks again for a very handy tool!
Cheers,
Jennifer