Ch...ch...ch..changes

It appears that the world keeps moving, and even the cutting edge information in my Blog becomes obsolete. I have edited the posts for Proxy (now gone) and CDIGIX (also now gone) to reflect the transition to various new services.

The Proxy is being retired June 15th, and has been replaced with a more secure connection known as WebVPN. There are many advantages to the occasional user. However WebVPN does not work with the O'Reilly Tech Books.

Because many of you are technologically saavy, it will likely not be difficult for you to transition instead to the Client VPN. The client VPN works perfectly well with the O'Reilly books as well as many other things that we can talk about at another time.

For more information click on the "Connect from home" link in the upper right hand corner of the UCR Libraries Web Site

CDIGIX has been replaced by a new service called Ruckus. I will reserve judgement. For more information visit the UCR Legal2Share page.

Bookmarklets

I have fallen in love with bookmarklets. I have in fact become obsessed with bookmarklets. These handy javascripts, masquerading as bookmarks can allow you one to do an amazing array of things, including efficiently searching the world of literature. I have created (or tweaked) the following bookmarklets:


Internet Explorer: (Right click on the link below, "add to favorites", put them in the links folder)



ISBN lookup for Melvyl (on a page with an isbn, this will automatically search for the ISBN in Melvyl)

ISBN Lookup for Scotty (ditto for Scotty)

Scotty Keyword Lookup (highlight a word on the page and click on this link, or just click on this link to do a quick Scotty search)

Amazon.com ISBN Look-up (look up an ISBN in Amazon.com)

Amazon.com Keyword Look-up (highlight a word and click on this link to look it up in Amazon.com)

Wikipedia Lookup (highlight a word and click on this link to look it up in Wikipedia)

Google Scholar





Firefox (and Netscape and Mozilla) - Drag the links onto your toolbar



ISBN lookup for Melvyl (on a page with an isbn, this will automatically search for the ISBN in Melvyl)

ISBN Lookup for Scotty (ditto for Scotty)

Scotty Keyword Lookup (click on this link to do a quick Scotty search)