Chrom extension tomighty8/11/2023 ![]() ![]() This extension simplifies searches for text. Want to do a text search in PubMed? Just highlight the text, right-click, and select the “Search Pubmed” option. You can check the EZProxy database to see if your institution uses it. Note, this extension only works if your institution uses EZProxy. You just need to configure your institution once by right clicking on the icon and clicking Options. While you’re on a paywalled article’s site, just hit the button and it’ll bring you to the proxy access login then bounce you back to the article page with full access. Tomighty: A free, desktop timer built to use the Pomodoro technique to help you focus for long periods of time. If I wound up on a paywalled journal article that UVM has access to, there was a multi-step process of navigating to the library site, logging in through the proxy, and searching for the journal.ĮZProxy Redirect automates that whole process. UVM uses EZProxy to provide off-campus access to subscribed journals. ![]() I bat about a 50% average of getting paywalled PDFs using Unpaywall. If it’s green, just click on the lock and it’ll download the PDF from wherever it’s hosted. If you’re on a journal’s website, you’ll see a grey or green lock appear on the right-hand side. It indexes legal, university- and government-hosted PDFs for journal articles. So brilliant, it’s integrated into Zotero. Unpaywall: Direct linkage to freely-available PDFs for manuscripts Get Zotero here and the Chrome extension here. Just navigate to the PubMed page for a journal article of interest and click the Zotero Chrome extension’s button (you’ll need to have the Zotero desktop app open at the same time) and it’ll pull the full reference AND PDF if it’s available using Unpaywall. It’s an excellent, free reference manager with a very slick Chrome plugin. If you haven’t already committed to a bloated, high-cost, litigious reference manager that rhymes with “spend smote”, I’d recommend checking out Zotero. Highlight the text to be read, right-click, and select the Read Aloud option. There isn’t a perfect text-to-speech (TTS) extension yet. Have you used a screen reader before? Try it out! It’s especially helpful getting through huge blocks of text. Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader Here’s a list of Chrome extensions that I have used and like. You might as well optimize Chrome to help you surf for research in the most productive way possible. Much of modern epidemiological research will be online, whether it be cruising PubMed, journal websites, learning introductory concepts on Wikipedia, or just straight-up Googling. ![]()
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