Aaron Tay's Blog – July 2009 Archive (4)

Adding ezproxy to the url - 5 different methods

Many libraries in the world provide remote access to electronic resources via EZproxy .

As Andrew Perry explains here

"Essentially, Ezproxy uses some URL mangling, rewriting all hyperlinks, to pass traffic via the proxy (rather than using a conventional browser proxy setting). If the user is not logged in to the proxy (ie has… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on July 30, 2009 at 4:40pm — 1 Comment

Rss feeds, Library databases and yahoopipes

This post will discuss how to use RSS feeds from library databases. It's surprisingly tricky to do it compared to subscribing to normal RSS feeds from most blogs. This is due to the fact libraries generally provide access via a proxy - ezproxy to provide remote access to databases off campus.

As most readers of this blog are probably reading this off a RSS feed, I won't explain what a RSS feed is. If you have no idea what it is, please…

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Added by Aaron Tay on July 30, 2009 at 4:38pm — No Comments

Aggregating sources for academic research in a web 2.0 world

Introduction

In this rather long post, I will talk about the different sources one could add to stay on top of one's research area. These include RSS feeds from traditional databases (citation alerts, table of contents of favourite journals), library opac feeds of searches and new additions, book vendor sites (e.g Amazon) book sharing sites (e.g LibraryThing), social bookmarking sites both generic…

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Added by Aaron Tay on July 24, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Does your library have a Firefox add-on collection?

Libraries that are big on Library 2.0 tend to offer a bunch of browser plugins/addons in the effort to reach out to the users who don't feel the need to visit the Library Portal.

They offer custom toolbars, some prefer Libx, others are big on Conduit toolbars. Many… Continue

Added by Aaron Tay on July 13, 2009 at 12:32pm — No Comments