Tag: University of Toronto
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Back to UofT campus on May 23, first time in the past 14 months
Entrance to UofT Gerstein Science Information Centre Restaurant car in front of Robarts Library A Chinese restaurant inside campus, but I had never been to. I forgot how to connect to the wifi network I used to connect to every day ☹ A new building! Hart House Kelly Library My faviourite rice noodle restaurant. King’s Circle Under Construction Way to the exam center The place where I studied for the most time three months before the pandemic King’s Street -
Get UofT Access
A Chrome extension that automatically redirects webpages to myaccess.utoronto.ca with one-click. Save people’s time! It may take people 5 seconds to 10 seconds to copy and paste myaccess.utoronto.ca in the address bar, but now it is just one click.
Get UofT Access More Background:
For many papers we find online, they are not free or are login-required. For instance, this one from ACM digital library at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/352871.352887.
A Paper in ACM digital library However, UofT library mirrors a great number of websites, including ACM digital library, and grants access to the UofT community.
For example, UofT library mirrors this page at https://dl-acm-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/doi/10.1145/352871.352887. If you are a UofT student, you get access to that paper using this link.
And there is a pattern in the URL conversion. This extension does this job for you. You don’t need to convert the URL yourself, all you need is one-click.
The extension is published in Chrome web store: Click here to add it.