Archive for October, 2008

Getting references fast

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Firefox smart keyword bookmarks with multiple search fields help retrieve the journal references faster

ImagineĀ  that you could write in your address bar something like prl 52 10356 and get directly to a paper in Phys Rev Lett, Vol.52, page 10356.

This doesn’t save too much time when you do it once a week and within one journal. But what if you are reading a paper and need to get references really quick and from different journals. This is especially painful for ACS journals, where on the journal page you don’t have a search field with vol and page, but need to browse to a paper.

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