Filling ILLiad forms

Sun, 20 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0400

You may have seen my other post on quickly getting papers remotely through your own library with JavaScript. This method works well if your paper is easy to find and you just need to get around the paywall using the access your institution pays for. Sometimes, especially with older papers, you may be able to find a reference, but not a paper. Libraries can offer great utilities to supporting finding original research articles, but they can sometimes be clunky and slow to use. This post will give an example of using JavaScript to file requests on ILLiad, an article requesting service from OCLC used at Penn State, from only a bibtex reference to the article.

Getting Papers Remotely

Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0400

Whether you are at home or traveling to a conference, it can be helpful to have access to all of the literature online that you would have at your institution. This article covers some easy and practical ways to connect to your institution's library easily. Some of these techniques work on any website, and others are for Google Scholar, or with the Alfred app for the Mac. The examples here are specifically for connecting to the Penn State library, but the methods are general enough to work at many or all institutions.

Javascript on bocklund.io

Filling ILLiad forms

Getting Papers Remotely