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Tells journal publisher frames and popups to piss off!
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Update Feb 15, 2020 -- Better late than never!
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Do you read academic journal articles on the World Wide Web using a computing machine of some kind??
Do you like to view the article PDF in your whole window and not in frames and pop-ups that academic journal publishers like to provide?
Good! Then, this is the right Chrome Extension for you!
Features:
- Eliminates useless PDF sidebars on select major publisher websites!
- Eliminates pop-up PDF windows on major journal article repositories that JStor and deliver Science Direct-ly to you!
- Doesn't really do anything else!
Enable/disable the extension on each publisher site by clicking the extension icon or by going to chrome://extensions > Piss Off > Options
Kindly send a support message if you find a publisher whose annoying frames and popups slip through the cracks. Sometimes publishers revamp (i.e. break) their sites as well, so let me know if things change suddenly! Otherwise, enjoy!
NOTE ON PERMISSIONS:
Requested permissions are solely to identify journal publisher websites and extract the appropriate PDF location. There are no ads, no tracking, and no analytics of any kind. I'm too simple for that kind of thing.
CHANGE LOG:
v0.38: New support for (destroying) Elsevier Reader! Several deprecated services have been removed, as publishers seem more amenable to just giving us the damn PDF. If this update breaks anything, please kindly leave a support message!
v0.37: Wiley Readcube has been re-killed!
v0.36: Some long overdue fixes, and deprecated support for some publishers who have finally given up on frames! Hurrah!
v0.35: Proquest support should be fixed. Added experimental support for the hub of science that shall not be named.
v0.34: Fixed JStor support due to site changes. Added satisfactory Springer support (I hope!). Fixed RSC support due to site changes.
v0.33: New quick url hack to impale the Readcube interface on Wiley and send you straight to the pdf. (Seriously, why do the publishers think anyone wants this??)
v0.32: Reverting a JStor bug fix.
v0.31: Squashed bugs that broke JStor compatibility. Added requested EBSCO support.
v0.30: Added new options panel accessible in chrome://extensions
v0.28: Added query string support for PDF + Supplementary Info implementation on some sites (e.g. PNAS). Prior to this version, the extension was recklessly discarding the query string.
v0.26: Bug fix for a situation in which Wiley URLs containing a proxy suffix would not be recognized correctly by the extension, leaving behind a hideous and monstrous header bar.
v0.25: Fix for another useless site change at sciencedirect that broke everything. (8/26/13)
v0.24: The hits just keep on coming. Here's a fix for RSC.
v0.23: Squashed a bug generated by a change at sciencedirect.com that permitted some pesky PDF popups if browsing from journal TOC pages.
v0.22: Added support for (destruction of!) Proquest.
v0.21: Quick sloppy fix for IEEEeeeeee!
v0.2: Supports (destroys!) more journal publisher websites. Eat it.
v0.1: First beta release.
Latest reviews
- (2020-03-26) Yi-Lin Wu: A must have extension for researcheres on Chrome!
- (2019-12-23) Dong-Jiunn Jeffery Truong: Beeest addon ever.
- (2019-02-04) Mehdi Davoudi: it is nice but does not work for the hub of science with .se and .tw domains.
- (2018-05-16) Junaid Ali: very good
- (2018-03-25) Haley Things: Now I can read Wiley articles again without being forced into ReadCube. Thank you!
- (2017-09-05) Alex: I love it. Does the job and does not attract attention.
- (2017-01-26) muhammad sheraz Javead: effects of social media
- (2016-10-28) Shashank Jariwala: Best extension for a researcher on Chrome. Love it!
- (2016-10-28) Shashank Jariwala: Best extension for a researcher on Chrome. Love it!
- (2016-06-10) Beckett Sterner: Works beautifully, and I despise ReadCube.
- (2016-05-10) Chris Chang: Brilliant! Wiley had broken everything with their stupid ReadCube nonsense, this fixed it! I can actually read publications again!
- (2016-05-10) The Wiley pdf link is a shame! Instead of delivering the pdf to my desktop, it tells me I should use a "modern browser". I'm using Google Chrome v50! It seems that some publishers try to redefine the "p" in pdf from "portable" to "proprietary". This extension does what it's supposed to. Dear developers, thank you very much!
- (2016-02-21) Feng Mai: Works great.
- (2015-06-10) Justin McGrath: Thanks. This so far seems to work exactly as advertised. I had been using the "Open Frame in New Tab" plugin for this, but that plugin no longer seems to know that pdfs are in frames.
- (2014-06-12) Jon Stephens: Thanks! Using it for Jstor.
- (2013-05-12) Victor Lelyveld: This is the best chrome extension in the history of earth.
Latest issues
- (2021-08-29, v:0.38) Gully Moy: Is ProQuest broken again?
It doesn't seem to change anything on ProQuest for me. Not sure if I'm doing anything wrong. - (2018-11-05, v:0.37) Readcube breaks
Hi. Lovely idea - thanks, but if "Wiley - Readcube" option is checked an article using Readcube never loads. Unchecking the option allows the page to load, inside Readcube :-( Looks like it's broken for Readcube. Would be great if you can fix. Thanks, Roger Wilkins. - (2018-08-21, v:0.37) Chon U Chan: scihub
scihub has updated their frame so it needs an update. Thanks! - (2018-04-03, v:0.35) complaint
not working - (2017-08-31, v:0.35) Berker Peköz: IEEEXplore Update Broke Frame
Thank you very much for this great extension. I've been happily using it for over a year. Today IEEEXplore updated their interface. The extension cannot piss off the publisher frame after this update, however pdf search still works. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1163711 Thanks a lot, I'll remember you and donate to you when I finish my PhD and get a job :) - (2016-11-16, v:0.35) Justin McGrath: Not working for some Springer sites
The pdf is still shown in a frame using the link below. It's a great little extension. Thanks for making it. http://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-62703-995-6_5#page-1 - (2016-07-04, v:0.35) GRGRY: Further site compatibility
Hi, Great product! well done. Could support for Nature.com (readcube) be added? Thanks again for the great work. http://www.nature.com/articles/nature18318.epdf?referrer_access_token=9O6D-EyxsnFnh7o4VYGAstRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PT9v1yHiTWIn5onj58eU6PgIQyH_14rZvQh-02SIs20GuVygKySVBBAgVRA-P08IvmD8mcma4_vZZKDhIgpJna-0PV9Wi_Vnn_LxmITzegiOqAEUD-QTXQEIJKpRF2Vr2wa24Z7CoI1aLAIwysRK_oA-zi5wNOKdfDRgLZch2T8HisJiHDBgvPykhunKBTofL9cr3fvNma6fwzMtHPgJ-hcEOSonekLu9gpq9xQ0eu6IhjlR9xk9IfC7uKLl4uKi8%3D&tracking_referrer=physicsworld.com - (2016-04-26, v:0.34) ProQuest
This is a GREAT app, thanks so much. It currently doesn't remove the frames in ProQuest, it would be lovely if you could add it. Thanks! - (2015-09-27, v:0.34) Дарья Сахно: Unfortunately it doesn't work.
What's the problem? I need to open http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4781.2012.01355.x/pdf Please, help! - (2015-03-16, v:0.32) Martin Peeks: Wiley epdf -> pdf
One of the best extensions. Would it be possible to include a fix for Wiley's epdf issue? Eg, "Get PDF" on http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201500731/abstract takes me to http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201500731/epdf . Could your extension instead automatically redirect me to ..../pdf? Thanks again for the extension - (2014-04-11, v:0.32) John Lavagnino: Proquest: saving PDFs
Great extension! I'm wondering if it can address a current issue with the Proquest site: it turns off the Save button for PDFs. You can use their Export/Save button instead but it saves an uglier version of everything. - (2013-09-06, v:0.26) Brendan O'Kane: Add configuration for proxy URLs?
Hi there, Thanks for writing this -- looks like exactly what I need in order to shorten the distance between myself and JStor's PDFs. Unfortunately, as I live off campus I'm mostly accessing JStor via a university proxy, so rather than URLs of the form [WEBSITE]/[DELICIOUS PDF], I'm mostly dealing with URLs in the format [PROXY]:[PORT CORRESPONDING TO [WEBSITE]]/[DELICIOUS PDF]. Is there any quick and easy way to tell the extension that it should do the same things on http://proxy.library.upenn.edu:2165/stable/pdfplus/2943456.pdf?acceptTC=true that it does on http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2943456.pdf?acceptTC=true ? Or should I just take a whack at editing the extension code myself? Many thanks, --Brendan