NUS Digital Library Bookmarklets

The NUS Digital Library has a very comprehensive list of e-resources which includes many publishers like ACM, Springer, IEEE, etc. It's great but it does not really help since most of the time, we find papers through Google search results. Here's (a possible) workflow:

1. Search keywords in Google
2. Find an exact match that goes to the paper page in ACM, Springer, IEEE, etc.
3. Go to the NUS Digital Library page, find and login to the publisher site.
4. Search the publisher site for the paper you've previously found.
5. Click on the download link.

The problem that necessitates the above is the page found by Google is the normal unauthenticated page (not logged in). And we cant use the side bar of the site to log in because that's not how the e-resources work in NUS (which authenticates via proxy).

One solution to this problem is to go directly from the normal page to the proxy page. We can use bookmarklets to achieve this. Changing the domain name of the URL works most of the time but may not work for sites that have different URLs when you're authenticated. For this, we have to find the correct URL for that site.

Here are some bookmarklets that I have used with success:

IEEE
javascript:window.location=window.location.protocol+
'//ieeexplore.ieee.org.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/xpls/abs_all.jsp'+
window.location.search+window.location.hash;

Springer
javascript:window.location=window.location.protocol+
'//springerlink.metapress.com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg'+
window.location.pathname+window.location.search+
window.location.hash;

All others (including ACM Digital Library)
javascript:window.location=window.location.protocol+
'//'+window.location.hostname+'.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg'+
window.location.pathname+window.location.search+
window.location.hash;

So now, when you reach a page from Google. You just need to click on the bookmarklet to get to the paper download page.

Note: The bookmarklets above must be one single line. There should not be any whitespaces.