Journal Access Bookmarklet

How it works

In order to use LSE library privileges to access a journal article off campus, you just have to adjust the link to match the LSE proxy syntax. It's easiest to see by example how this looks.

Take this link, which is behind a paywall:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/715236

When LSE users adjust this link with the LSE proxy syntax they get access to the article. In particular, you have to change to replace the host name 'dots' with dashes to become www-journals-uchicago-edu, and then follow that with .lse.idm.oclc.org. The complete URL with LSE proxy syntax looks like this:

https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.lse.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1086/715236

The JournalAccess bookmarklet just automates this process for forgetful and lazy users like myself, who either forget the string or are too lazy to type it. It's a trivially simple javascript, which just grabs your browser's URL and inserts the LSE library access proxy in the appropriate place. Here's the code appearing in the JournalAccess bookmarklet in its entirety.

javascript:(function(){
    var h=location.hostname.split(':')[0]; //Gets the hostname (e.g. 'www.journals.uchicago.edu')
    if(h.indexOf('.lse.idm.oclc.org')>-1){
        alert('You are already in the Bookmarklet');} //Warning if the proxy is already being used
    else{if(h.indexOf('.')==-1){
        alert('Cannot apply the Bookmarklet to this host: '+h); //Warning if the host has no dots, so the proxy can't be applied
        return;}
//Finally set the new proxy location:
    location.href =
       location.protocol + '//' +
       h.replace(/\./g, '-') +
       '.lse.idm.oclc.org' +
       location.pathname +
       location.search +
       location.hash
   }})();