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
September 26th, 2006 @ 0:10
Hi Stian,
Your myaccess bookmarklet is really useful and impressive but I’d just like to suggest a slightly easier shortcut which I’m not sure if you’re aware of:
Instead of popping the myaccess.library.utoronto.ca in the middle of your jstor site say, you can actually do access the same site by http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url=http://links.jstor.org/
It just makes it easier as you just append the myacess login url to the front.
Great idea nontheless
Everest
October 4th, 2007 @ 3:24
Here’s a modified bookmarklet using Everest’s approach. It seems to work. It just replaces the current address with the string “http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url=” and appends the current address again to it.
Don’t know if it’s any better or worst than Stian’s approach but it’s a little simpler. Also, apparently you can use this on U of T’s webmail so that links to restricted content get automatically converted by myaccess, although I’ve never actually tried that.
Here’s the bookmarklet:
MyAccess2
October 4th, 2007 @ 3:27
Hmmm, doesn’t look like that link works, but you can create the bookmarklet by creating a new bookmark with the following Location:
javascript:document.location=’http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url=’+document.location.href;