Links posted on December 11, 2008
Bookmarklet to re-request a journal article thru the UT Proxy
Apologies in advance to Non-UT people: if you don't have a current UT EID this is of no use to you. If you are at home and get the no yuo on a journal article, rather than do the the go-to-library-site-log-in-look-up-journal-in-catalog-find-again-on-journal-site dance, you can just paste
https://ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?qurl=
in front of the URL and it generally does the Right Thing.
Here, because I love you, is a bookmarklet to do that (it also encodes the url, improving your chances of success):
UT Proxy
Drag that link to your bookmarks toolbar and then practice:
* dictionary.oed.com
* nature.com
Appending .ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu to the domain name often works too but I've found the query one above to be more robust.