1. Email Alerts
Email alerts help you to keep abreast of current literature in your
field of interest.
After creating the alerts in databases or journal publishers, URL links
to the latest citations will be automatically sent to your email account
by the databases or journal publishers. To access the full-texts from
the URL links listed in your email alerts, you will have to install the
Proxy Bookmarklet.
2.
What is a Proxy Bookmarklet?
It is a
bookmark that automatically prepends the NUS Library proxy to the
required URL link in your browser. This allows you to view the URL as
though you were on campus, giving you access to materials licensed for
use by NUS staff and students. If you are not authenticated, you will be
prompted for your NUSNET ID and password.
3. How do I install the Proxy Bookmarklet in
my browser?
For Internet Explorer:
1) Right click on this link: <NUS Libraries Proxy Bookmarklet>.
2) Select "Add to Favorites".
3) If you wish to add to "Links", go to "Favourites" and drag and drop
the bookmarklet to "Links".
Note:
· Alternative installation method for IE7 only: Click and drag the link
to the "Links" toolbar.
· If a warning message: "You are adding a favorite that may not be safe.
Do you want to continue?" appears, click "Yes" to continue.
· If the "Links" toolbar is not visible in the web browser, go to
View->Toolbars menu of the browser to enable it.
For Mozilla Firefox:
1) Right click on this link: <NUS Libraries Proxy Bookmarklet>.
2) Select "Bookmark This Link". Or click and drag the link to the
"Bookmarks" toolbar.
For Safari:
1) Click and drag this link: <NUS Libraries Proxy Bookmarklet> to the
"Bookmarks" bar.
4.
How do I use the Bookmarklet to 'proxy' the URL links in email alerts?
Go to the email alert and click on the required link of citation alert.
A browser session will open for the link where access to the required
article is restricted.
Click on the "NUS Libraries Proxy Bookmarklet" which you have
installed in your Browser toolbar/Bookmark/Favourites.
The
NUS Library proxy is automatically added and you now can view the full-text.
Note:
You may be prompted to login to the library proxy if you have not
done so previously.
5. What about
email alerts received from the Web of Science databases as in the following
example?
When you click on the above Web of Science email alert, you
will notice that the link automatically changes to another completely different URL. You need to manually add
the proxy stem 'http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url='
in front of the given link. You can then search this new URL in your browser:
At the results page, click on 'Full
Text' to view the article:
6. How do I access
full-texts from links retrieved from external websites e.g. Google Scholar?
Instructions
for accessing full-texts (via Library proxy) from external databases are available at
http://lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/d/proxybkmrklet_google.html
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Last updated:
06-08-2009
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