UofT MyAccess Bookmarklet

Have you ever been directed to a highly-relevant research paper, yet were not recognized as a UofT researcher by the system and thus denied access to the full text PDF? This usually happens if you're working from home, and searching outside of the UofT libraries system. If that's the case, try this bookmarklet instead of arduously searching for the exact same article through UofT's system. It will save you much time!

All the bookmarklet does is prepend the URL http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url= to the URL of the active website and navigate the browser to that concatenated URL.

MyAccess

To install: Simply drag the above button to your bookmarks toolbar or menu. To use: While on an academic publisher's website, click on your "MyAccess" bookmarklet. You will then log into the publisher's system through UofT and voilà, will have access to the publication*.

The code is very simple JavaScript, and is as follows:

UofTmyAccess='http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url='; window.location=UofTmyAccess+window.location;

* UofT's MyAccess program provides access to a huge number of databases. The bookmarklet will not work with a publisher that is not part of this program.