Posts Tagged ‘productivity tools’

Quick PDFs from your PubMed Searches with PubGet PaperPlane!

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Quick PDFs from your PubMed Searches with PubGet PaperPlane!
An exciting new bookmark tool lets you pull up PDFs from your PubMed searches in seconds. With PubGet PaperPlane, you get the full functionality of the PubMed search interface, with the convenience of browsing the PDFs of the articles you’ve retrieved.

This quick video shows you how to add the PaperPlane bookmark to your browser’s bookmark toolbar. In your PubMed search results click the PaperPlane bookmark, and it will pull up available PDFs for you to view and download.
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Pubget is a free simple search engine of nearly 20 million life science articles, designed to simplify PDF retrieval. Personal accounts allow readers to create a custom list of their favorite journals.

Jefferson librarians have linked the PubGet service to our journal database, so that you can connect to our thousands of electronic journal subscriptions. While available automatically on campus, off-campus users should specify Thomas Jefferson on the “I get my PDFs from” menu.

Our tests of PaperPlane have shown that it works with the current version of PubMed in Firefox, Safari and Chrome.   It doesn’t work with Internet Explorer 6.   Some articles will deliver Session Cookie Errors if the browser won’t accept cookies. [Editor's note: A representative from PubGet told us they're working on better browser compatibility.]

Unlike some other PDF downloading services (Scopus/ScienceDirect/EndNote), with PubGet you must download each PDF separately and the PDFs are not renamed with author, title, etc.  However, registered users may download a Firefox extension that processes bulk downloads of PDFs:

Pubget bulk pdf

If you have questions about PubGet, PaperPlane or other JEFFLINE resources, please contact the Reference Desk at 215-503-8150, askalibrarian@jefferson.edu. or chat with us at SMLReference.

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EndNote X3 users – get full text downloads!

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Jefferson’s EndNote X3 users can set up their preferences to quickly download PDFs for many of their citations from JEFFLINE.

In EndNote’s Edit Menu, choose Preferences, then Find Full Text.

In OpenURL Path:, enter:

http://fa7pn9ym8k.search.serialssolutions.com

In Authenticate with:… URL , enter:

https://login.proxy1.lib.tju.edu/login

Click Apply.

ENX3 configure

To retrieve article PDFs, highlight the references for which you want to find full text. Choose References –> Find Full Text.

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You’ll be prompted to log in with your campus key. On the JEFFLINE Proxied Resources page, click Continue, and click OK on the copyright usage notice.

PDFs will download and be stored with your EndNote citations. A paperclip will appear next to those references with a PDF attached.

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Note: Sometimes the program will not find PDFs even when a JEFFLINE subscription is available. In the citation record, look for a URL to return to the record in the database where the record was downloaded (e.g. Scopus or PubMed). Once in that database, click the JEFFLINE button to look for the full-text of the article. PubMed users must be logged into a MyNCBI account with the Jefferson Outside Tool activated to see these JEFFLINE links.

If you’d like to know more about EndNote, other bibliographic software programs or JEFFLINE databases, please contact the Reference Desk at 215-503-8150, askalibrarian@jefferson.edu, or IM SMLreference.

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Download multiple article PDFs in seconds

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Two JEFFLINE databases now automate downloading and renaming journal article PDFs, to quickly obtain and organize batches of articles. The two databases, Scopus and Elsevier ScienceDirect, use Quosa software, which lets you:

  • choose multiple articles to download
  • opt to download abstracts for articles not available online (abstracts download as web pages from the database)
  • choose how you’d like to name the PDFs, using preset combinations of author/title/journal or choosing from a list of citation elements and adding your own prefix or suffix
  • have a quick cup (or sip) of coffee while the software checks each citation for full-text availability, downloads and renames the files. A status page shows which items have downloaded and whether they are full-text or abstract only.

    Scopus Download

    • A recent test of 20 articles found in a Scopus search downloaded and renamed 14 article PDFs in three minutes.

    In ScienceDirect, the Advanced Search lets you limit to Subscribed Sources to get just those articles available through JEFFLINE:

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    Look for more developments as vendors include better tools to simplify document retrieval when searching databases.

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11 tools to manage your to-read list

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Whether you’re an iPhone user or a humble computer user like myself, there’s a tool for you here. From Palin Ningthoujam at mashable.com

Sometimes we discover interesting websites that we want to save to check out later because we’re busy with other tasks. For such occasions, there is a new breed of browser addons, bookmarklets, and special bookmarking services available to help save those urls and retrieve them easily later. Here are 11 of them.

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Firefox extensions for research

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

One of the benefits of using the Firefox browser is the wealth of creative extensions contributed by the community to make you more productive on the web. Legal blogger Benson Varghese gives his top 20 in two parts:

  • Part I: Find what you’re looking for
  • Part II: Save, Organize, Annotate, and Cite Your Search Results.

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