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Department of Health Library OLD: Accessing Full-Text

Accessing full-text

Accessing full-text
Access to subscribed Library resources is controlled by an authentication string within the web address (URL).  This string carries information through to publisher sites that provides the authorisation to reach the full text of subscribed resources.

The surest path to seamless full-text access to subscribed journal and e-book content is to use the Journals A-Z catalogue .

If you reach a subscription restricted (pay walled) online resource without going through the Library's links (and therefore without the authentication string) you will be blocked from the full-text content.

Sometimes table of contents and search alerts sent to you your work e-mail, strip this authentication string from the links when you access these alerts from your mobile devices.

This page provides some solutions to this problem.

Bookmarklets
A bookmarklet automatically attaches the Library's proxy string to the URL, proving to a publisher that you have access rights.

Once you have set up a bookmarklet, next time you're trying to get to a web page for an article or e-book that denies permission, click the  DOH Library Proxy bookmarklet in your list of browser bookmarks. Notice that the bookmarklet adds an "authentication string" into the web address: eplibresources.health.wa.gov.au. If the Library has a subscription on that platform you will be able to log in with your usual network credentials, if prompted.

Not 100% Effective
This will work for most journals, however, occasionally the authentication is more complex and you will need to go through the Library's Journals A to Z catalogue to gain access.

For instance - Library access to the Lancet is not from the Lancet site but from Science Direct - applying the bookmarklet against the Lancet site will not link you to full text - you need to be in the Science Direct interface.

Installation Instructions

Microsoft Edge

Click on this link and drag to your Favourites bar:: DOH Library Proxy Bookmarklet

Firefox

Right click on this link: DOH Library Proxy Bookmarklet 
Select Bookmark This Link. Alternatively, click and drag the link to your Bookmarks toolbar

Safari

Click on this link and drag to your Bookmarks bar: DOH Library Proxy Bookmarklet 

Google Chrome

Click on this link and drag to your Bookmarks bar: DOH Library Proxy Bookmarklet 

Part One: Creating the Bookmark

- Open Chrome browser and view this page (the one you’re reading now)
- Tap on the star icon next to the URL
- Tap Save to create a bookmark
- Note where it saves, for example, In Mobile Bookmarks
- Rename the bookmark to 'DOH Library bookmarklet' or something meaningful to you

Part Two: Editing the Bookmarklet

- Select and copy the entire bookmarklet code shown below.

javascript:void(location.href=%22https://login.eplibresources.health.wa.gov.au/login?url=%22+location.href)

- Tap the menu options icon Android menu icon and select Bookmarks. Be sure you’re viewing Mobile Bookmarks or wherever you saved it
- Tap and hold to choose the DOH Library bookmarklet bookmark and then Edit bookmark
- Delete text from address/URL field
- Paste to add the javascript code instead
- Tap Save

Using the Bookmarklet

NOTE: Bookmarklet is only needed if you go directly to a journal, database or article – not starting from a link on the DOH Library website.
- Clicked to view an article and not granted full access? Start typing “DOH Library bookmarklet” into the address/URL above resource. Choose the suggestion with “javascript:void” below it to trigger the bookmarklet.
- You will be prompted to log in with your WA Health credentials.
- Once authenticated as Department of Health staff, you should get access.
- You will remain authenticated until you close the browser.

Installing a bookmarklet for iPhone, iPad, and other iOS devices

Step 1: Copy this link of text
javascript:void(location.href=%22https://login.eplibresources.health.wa.gov.au/login?url=%22+location.href) 

Step 2: Bookmark this Library website page (or any page).

Click on the Share icon at the bottom of the device.

Select to Add a Bookmark.

Step 3: Edit the Bookmark

Tap the bookmarks button.

Find the bookmark you just saved and edit it - i.e. change the name of the bookmark to DOH Library Bookmarklet

Change the URL field - delete everything in it then paste in the line of text previously copied into the URL address box:

Step 4: Using the Bookmark

Next time you're trying to get to the web page for an article or e-book that denies permission (eg trying to view articles from the New England Journal of Medicine on your iOS device), click the DOH Library Bookmarklet in your list of browser bookmarks.

Notice that the bookmarklet adds an "authentication string" into the web address - eplibresources.health.wa.gov.au.

If the Library has a subscription on that platform you will be able to log in with your usual network credentials.

The web address changes from:
https://www.nejm.org to https://www-healthaffairs-org.eplibresources.health.wa.gov.au/ - simply by clicking on the Bookmarklet.

Remember the caveat - this form of linking is not 100% effective.