From arun@mssrf.res.in Sun Apr  3 12:51:43 2005
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:45:01 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam 
To: Prabir G. Dastidar ,
     Subbiah Gunasekaran , nmeyy@cecri.res.in,
     hamsa@cecri.res.in, cecri  ppmg 
Cc: dksahu@vsnl.com, lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in,
     Niranjan V Joshi , oa-india@dgroups.org,
     bvnathan@iitm.ac.in
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Scholar Monitor


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Scholar Monitor
A
re you looking for research papers? Go http://scholar.google.com/ http://scholar.google.com
.
H
ave you ever wanted to monitor research papers of particular authors, research groups, or research areas? If you have, Scholar Monitor is what you want. The program was inspired by and reused source code from http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail
.
S
cholar Monitor allows a user to set particular keywords, and monitors the result counts of keywords. If there are new papers, it shows a
new!
mark with counts. For example if a user is interested in monitoring a Jim's paper about WebDAV, she can add a keywors, "author: jim WebDAV" for Scholar Monitor.
H
ow to install (reused from http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail
.)
If you are not using Firefox yet, download and install one from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Firefox homepage
.
If you haven't already, install the excellent http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ greasemonkey
Firefox extension.
Open up this http://scholar.dforge.cse.ucsc.edu/scholar.user.js Scholar Monitor user script
in Firefox . You can exam the source code.
>From the "Tools" menu, select "Install User Script .." and confirm all of the various prompts.
Go to http://scholar.google.com/ http://scholar.google.com
(some refreshing may be necessary).
There should now be a "Scholar Monitor" box in the middle of the page and the result page.
Clicking on a search executes the saved query. To refresh result counts, click on the refresh icon in the upper right corner.
Use the "Edit monitor item" link to customize your Scholar Monitor.
Enjoy!
W
e welcome any participation to improve Scholar Monitor such as adding Bibtex import button. Please send me a patch or join http://dforge.cse.ucsc.edu/projects/scholar/ our project group
. If you want to know how this works, read the script code or visit the http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches Persistent Searches to Gmail
page. The source code is distributed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons license
.
I
have no affiliation with Google. This script is hijacking the whole HTML from Google Scholar and adds a monitor box. This program is not endorsed by Google. If you have any problems with Scholar Monitor, please contact Sung Kim, hunkim@gmail.com.

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