This is a great idea, thanks for sharing.
On 4/27/2011 9:10 AM, Van Mil, James (vanmiljf) wrote:
> Hi everyone! (first post!)
>
> We've been getting lots of feedback at my library about the problem with the NY Times paywall and the lack of institutional access to their website, but we do have a subscription to a Proquest database which includes all current content that is included in the print addition.
>
> However, every article at the web version of the NY Times that was also published in the print version includes a reference to the article from the print edition, including date, page number, and print version title (information which is all still accessible in the page source when the paywall blocks access). Additionally, the Proquest database has very clear search syntax.
>
> So, I wrote a bookmarklet to check whether the article was published in print and to open a new browser window to search for the article at Proquest. (I know that there are other work-arounds to the paywall, but I'm interested in one that our library could ethically promote.)
>
> The code for the bookmarklet is short, so I've included it below. I'd like to add the option to search the headline in Google News for any articles that aren't available in the print version, and I need to write some title-string sanitization to deal with some funky punctuation in the occasional headline. If anyone has any other feedback, I'd love to hear it. (And I apologize both for the lack of commenting (bookmarklets don't seem to have room for this) and for the lack of style (I started learned Javascript yesterday).)
>
> Thanks!
> James
>
> James Van Mil
> Collections& Electronic Resources Librarian
> Electronic Resources Department
> University of Cincinnati Libraries
> PO Box 210033
> Cincinnati OH 45221-0033
> Telephone: (513) 556-1410
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>
>
> javascript:
> (
> function()
> { var source = document.documentElement.innerHTML;
> var regex1 = /A version of this article appeared in print on ((January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December) ([1-2][0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9]), ((19|20)[0-9][0-9])), on page (\w+) of the New York edition with the headline:(.*)</g;
> var match = regex1.exec(source);
> if (match)
> {
> var articleDate = new Date(match[2] + ' ' + match[3] + ', ' + match[4]);
> var articleYear = articleDate.getFullYear();
> var articleMonth = articleDate.getMonth()+1;
> var articleDay = articleDate.getDate();
> var regex2 = /([A-Z]+)(\d+)/g;
> var pageMatch = regex2.exec(match[6]);
> window.open('https://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=305&SQ=issn%2803624331%29%20and%20ti%28' + match[7] + '%29%20and%20pdn%28' + articleMonth + '%2F' + articleDay + '%2F' + articleYear + '%29%20and%20startpage%28' + pageMatch[1] + '.' + pageMatch[2] + '%29');
> }
> else
> {
> alert("This article hasn't been published in the print version of the NY Times and isn't accessible through the UC Libraries.");
> }
> }
>
> )
> ();
>
