Browser Extensions - Accessing Restricted Content

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In addition to "Configuring Google Scholar for Mason library content", there are several browser extensions that offer yet another way to simplify access to subscription-restricted content.     

 

 Google Chrome  

 

EZPROXY-REDIRECT   

Like many universities, George Mason relies upon the EZProxy software to provide off-campus access to content that is typically restricted to users on the campus network.   This extension adds a button to Chrome which offers a quick way to reload the current page so that it goes through the EZProxy server.  

If you are a Mason affiliate (e.g., able to authenticate to the CAS login page) and the library has a subscription to the content you're trying to access, this URL rewrite will take you to the content.

 

UNPAYWALL

Unpaywall uses a different approach.   When you are looking at a research article, clicking the Unpaywall button will launch a search across the net to find the article if it's available in on an open-access server.  Unpaywall finds author-posted, perfectly legal copies of manuscripts hosted on university and government web servers.  

Firefox

The same two extensions are available for the Firefox browser:

Ezproxy-Redirect for Firefox

Unpaywall for Firefox

 

 

 

  • Last Updated Jun 10, 2024
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  • Answered By Wally Grotophorst

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