Sun, 04 Feb 2007

JSTOR Proxy Greasemonkey Script

I've written my first greasemonkey script, to rewrite links to JSTOR. JSTOR contains articles from tons of journals, but you need to have a subscription to access it. My university has a license, but in order to use the site remotely, you must go through the school's proxy server. So my script appends the name of your proxy server onto the jstor.org domain, in my case libaccess.sjlibrary.org.

Install the script.

Update: It now supports ieeexplore.ieee.org url's too. I knew the name would come back to bite me. I guess I'll wait to rename it until I rewrite to handle multiple domains more cleanly.

Another Update: Support for

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