⚠⚠⚠ This extension is deprecated and no more maintained. Please consider replacing it by Click & Read⚠⚠⚠

istex-web-extension

A basic add-on for identifying dynamically ISTEX resources in the browser pages.

This extension is an adaptation of istex-browser-addon, using "Web extensions" technology.

At the present time, 2 versions are available : one for Mozilla Firefox, the other for Google Chrome.

Functionalities

This add-on performs the following task:

Add an ISTEX button next to any DOI, OpenUrl and PMID found in the browser page in case the corresponding document is present in ISTEX, based on the ISTEX OpenURL service. Clicking on the ISTEX button will open a new tab with opening the corresponding PDF, assuming that the access to the ISTEX full-texts is authorized.

Linking work at item level (e.g. article) and will try to identifying the following identifiers in the web page:

OpenURL 1.0, including COInS - link resolver prefixes will be examined in case of SFX and Proquest 360 Link
DOI
PubMed ID (PMID)
Publisher Item Identifier (PII)

Currently:

Example of links on a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluid_helium-4

If you just want to install the extension, please visit https://addons.istex.fr and click on the big "Install" button.

If you use Google Chrome, you can alose visit the extension's homepage on the Chrome Web Store and click on the "Add to Chrome" button.

How to build the xpi:

npm i
npm run build

How to run the web extension in developer mode with firefox (you need to install firefox >= 49):

npm i
npm run run

It will open firefox on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluid_helium-4 with the istex-web-extension loaded.