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My institution subscribes to Nature, and using my library's proxy to access the Nature website, I can use the "Share/bookmark" menu to generate links like http:
by chbrown 12y ago
My institution subscribes to Nature, and using my library's proxy to access the Nature website, I can use the "Share/bookmark" menu to generate links like http://rdcu.be/bKk4 http://rdcu.be/bKk4, http://rdcu.be/bKlc http://rdcu.be/bKlc, http://rdcu.be/bKld http://rdcu.be/bKld, and http://rdcu.be/bKli http://rdcu.be/bKli, which can be viewed in the browser (or maybe only because I also just installed the ReadCube app?).
The articles linked to above span several months, but it's generating serial links, so I can only assume that it's able to track visits back to the subscriber and/or my university account.
The ReadCube HTML5 reader looks nice, but does not work with JavaScript disabled (no surprise there). It uses JavaScript to override text selection (disabling copy&paste), but after a little meddling with the developer tools and element inspector, you can find a decently near ancestor to the text and copy the DOM as html. Stick that into a new file and you can select (and copy) the text without too much further hassle.
The DOM is awkward and split up kind of like a PDF (selecting a range of text goes haywire in unpredictable cases), but in comparing the HTML DOM hierarchy to the text object structure in the original PDF (which, as a subscriber, I can download), I found no obvious similarities, so I'm guessing they aren't translating the PDF to HTML directly.
- gergles 12y agoIt is awful awful awful to show the "PDF download" button then go "Ha ha, no!" when you click it. Such a shitty UX.
- saeguaiga 12y agoShould be "replicate experiment, writeup and peer review;" there, fixed it for you. You know the userscript.
- lomnakkus 12y agoIndeed. My options were 1: "$3.99 rent, $9.99 buy" (the was called the "ReadCube access" option) 2: Purchase article full text and PDF: $8 (had no annotations, so presumably the "Nature" option) In either case this is NOT "free". Nature, try again.
- ynniv 12y agoA trivial bookmarket or addon could strip their nonsense from the page. The examples you posted were all single page articles, though. Perhaps multiple pages are rendered on demand in a way that would be less trivial to strip.
- semi-extrinsic 12y agoYes, I'm convinced that someone is already hacking away at this. Just look at the state of all eBook DRM being currently broken, and that's a much tougher nut to crack (and publishers have much higher financial gains at stake). Also, since no-one else has mentioned it: analog hole.
- Perseids 12y agoDo you actually get a pure HTML5 reader on any of your links? For me, each of them requires flash: "To view this page in ReadCube Web Reader ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.0 or greater is installed."
- chbrown 12y agoI do. I block Flash in Firefox (v33.1), and it works in Firefox. Chrome (v38.0...) might have some Flash on it somewhere, but it's mostly HTML.
- betatim 12y agoRegarding the creation of the links to read the articles. For me the readcube link is just made from the DOI you get on the public webpage. It is so simple that I even wrote a little bookmarklet to do it: https://betatim.github.io/posts/read-any-nature-paper-for-free/ https://betatim.github.io/posts/read-any-nature-paper-for-fr... For example for http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14015.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu... the readcube link is simply http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/nature14015 http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/nature14015 It seems too easy? What am I missing?
- betatim 12y agoConclusion, I forgot to turn off my VPN at some point when testing the resulting link. If you are not at CERN (like me) it will just show a preview :( If you want to learn about graphene's amazing properties go ahead and read the paper here: http://rdcu.be/bKud http://rdcu.be/bKud