December 11, 2008
Bookmarklet to re-request a journal article thru the UT Proxy
Apologies in advance to Non-UT people: if you don't have a current UT EID this is of no use to you. If you are at home and get the no yuo on a journal article, rather than do the the go-to-library-site-log-in-look-up-journal-in-catalog-find-again-on-journal-site dance, you can just paste
https://ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?qurl=
in front of the URL and it generally does the Right Thing.
Here, because I love you, is a bookmarklet to do that (it also encodes the url, improving your chances of success):
UT Proxy
Drag that link to your bookmarks toolbar and then practice:
* dictionary.oed.com
* nature.com
Appending .ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu to the domain name often works too but I've found the query one above to be more robust.
I made a keyword bookmark in Firefox with keyword "ez":
http://ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?url=%S
It is important that the S be capitalized.
Nice tip GMcD!
Here are the other bookmarklex I use:
- GoogleSel - Google the currently highlighted text in page.
- WikipediaSel - Wikipedia the currently highlighted text in page.
- Wayback - Take the current URL and search it in the wayback (internet archive) machine. Perfect when you get 404'ed and the URL has persisted.
- POST to GET - You will find this useless or, perhaps, awesome.
HTML forms are either submitted as GET requests: all parameters reside in the URL, like a google search; or as POST requests: parameters are sent in the extended conversation, as when you post a comment here. Often, but not always, the recipient is happy to process the GET request even if its form was set up for POST.
If so, you can bookmark that submission -- really handy when a search you want to bookmark is set up to POST. (It's especially delightful if you're in the habit of systematically exploring or scripting repeated queries against a page, but I've found it frequently useful otherwise; maybe you will, too.) - del.icio.us if you use it. Google reader's got one of those too but you knew that.
- bit.ly current URL, y'know, for the twitter... Same as tinyurl but you can enter a custom slug (so, http://bit.ly/infochimps) if you can spare the chars or a shorter one (http://bit.ly/htyl) if you can't. You also get some extra info about the URL.
- I have keyword searches on
g = Google -- http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=%s
gl = Google+I Feel Lucky -- http://www.google.com/search?btnI=Lucky&q=%s
wp = Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?fulltext=fulltext&search=%s
gm = Google Maps -- http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=%s
wn = WordNet -- http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=%s
gd = Google define:word -- http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=define+%sIf you've never used keyword bookmarks they kick ass: create the bookmark and add the short little mnemonic (the 'g' or 'wp') in the "keyword" field. Then from the URL bar (^L / ⌘L) you can just type "gm New Orleans" to be taken straight to a google maps search on, in this case, New Orleans. (This keyword bookmarks feature may be Firefox Only.)
I love you, mrflip, 'stache and all.
*hug*
Those will work on Chrome, too. Some will be auto-discovered, so check for them in the list. To get to the list, right-click the address bar, and choose "Edit search engines..."
If you can't remember if you have the right keyword as you type, hit tab. That'll load the full name of the search engine your keyword will pull up. And "search engine" is used very loosely; I have some set up to load items from our system, for example, even though there's no actual search involved.
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I had been using your second method but it barfs a fair amount. Will add bookmarklet and thanks.
posted by natedogg at 02:11AM CST on December 11