Extension for browser
The save to RefWorks button has never worked for me or anyone at my school due to the blocks in place that can't be removed on computers for ads, cookies and other restrictions. A browser extension through the Chrome web store would help to solve this issue as it would be about acquiring permissions rather than relying on there not being any permissions to bypass. As is the nature of an application that reads the website and its data and extracts information many companies have been increasing the security of websites to prevent hacking but this inadvertently impacts programs such as the current bookmark extention. Additionally, it would allow the citation to be edited while next to the website to correct errors at the time of citation. Furthermore, the use of an extension embedded in the browser rather than through bookmarks is that it can add to both the reliability and accessibility of the feature as well as provide better flexibility in sorting references of multiple projects at once.
Miriam Samuel
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Jill Hazard
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I agree that this would be a good move forward, as the save to refworks tool appears to be getting blocked by website, i'm assuming due to security settings on the sites (not grabbing .gov.uk or BBC pages but ok on others). I'm aware that talis aspire has similar issues with their bookmarklet tool too (on the same sites) so moved to the bookmarking extension which works differently and can now capture metadata on those sites. Hopefully a move to an extension would give the change to develop the tool in this way to make it work again for some key websites for us.