Life & fun · November 15, 2019
Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpages again
Academic webpage of Anders Damsgaard
Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpages again launched on November 15, 2019 with 127 votes, #202 of 3,203 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
Scholarref tools is a browser extension that simplifies academic research by eliminating the need to navigate individual journal websites. Launched in 2019, it streamlines the process of accessing and managing scholarly articles for researchers and students. The tool integrates directly into the browser workflow, reducing time spent bouncing between different journal platforms and their interfaces.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
During the writing phase of an academic paper, common tasks include downloading PDFs of publications and getting their references into your bibliography. However, I am not a fan of navigating the slow, bloated, tracker-filled, and distracting webpages of academic journals and publication aggregators. For some reason, many publishers decided that clicking the "Download PDF" link should redirect the user to an unusable in-browser PDF viewer instead of providing the PDF file directly. While the majority of journal webpages provide formatted citations for their publications, these are inconsistent in style and content. For these reasons, I constructed a set of shell tools called scholarref that…from adamsgaard.dk
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