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Don't forget to email the author and ask for a reprint or a self-archived deposit, so they know that people can't read their papers. There's a bookmarklet at this link that might be useful - it would work well as a Ubiquity script too. - http://hublog.hubmed.org/archive...

September 18, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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...link - it would work well as a Ubiquity script too. - _alf

Brilliant. I've updated the room description to include a link. Thanks Alf (and Pierre)! - Bill Hooker

Oooooh, great idea! - D0r0th34

Spot on. I have a library of ~ 850 TA Manu's (mainly neuroscience) and never paid for one. From my experience, 88% of authors email a PDF no problem, 2% also do so but ask that you don't export it and 10% ignore you. Individual requests is time consuming (e.g. finding the corres. author's email etc.) The point is that most authors share TA Manu's at the drop of a hat. Also see this which I posted last year:- http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/2007... - Graham Steel

I love the idea of the bookmarklet, but I'm not getting how to use it. When I drag it to the toolbar, as in Pierre's original message, nothing happens when I click on it; if I fill in the form with my info in this link, it tells me I never specified an e-mail address. Is it version-dependent (Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 and Firefox 3.0.1)? - Heather

@Heather: once you've generated the bookmarklet from the form, drag it to your toolbar, then run it on an article HTML page. Sometimes it can't find an email address for the corresponding author in the page, which is when you'll get that message. - _alf

Thanks! I got it now. Great little tool. - Heather