Found an interesting paper and don’t have time to read it right now? Today we are adding a reading list to your Scholar Library to help you save papers and read them later.
You can also use it to save papers you find off-campus but want to read on-campus where you have access to the full text, or papers you find on your smartphone but want to read on a larger screen.
To add a paper to your reading list, click “Save” and add the “Reading list” label. To use this feature, you need to be signed in to your Google account.
To get to your reading list, click “My library”:
…and select “Reading list” in the sidebar.
To read the paper, click the [PDF] or [HTML] link next to its title.
After reading a paper, click "Archive" or "Delete" to remove it from your reading list. Archived papers are kept in your library for later reference; deleted papers are removed from your library.
Now you can gather papers as you go, block off a good chunk of time, and dig into the details.
Posted by: Danni Chen, Kyu Jin Hwang, and Alex Verstak
Scholar Button, released in 2015, provides easy access to Google Scholar from any webpage. You can use it to find fulltext on the web or in your university library, format references in widely used citation styles, repeat a web search in Scholar, or simply look up a reference to a paper.
We're releasing an update with several new features. The window that opens when you click Scholar Button used to look like this:
We added a "Save" star and moved the "Cite" button next to it, and added history navigation buttons to the bottom toolbar:
You can now save the article to read later - click the small blue star under the article to save it, or the big gray star at the bottom to see all saved articles in your Scholar library. The article is saved in your most recently accessed Scholar account; to use a different one, click the account photo in the upper right.
We've also added a back button! You can now easily undo query refinements that didn't work out, and even recover the window after you close it - just open it again and click back. Your Scholar Button history is stored locally in your browser for an hour; click the account photo in the upper right to clear it right away.
Finally, we have improved how Scholar Button identifies the webpage you're reading. Clicking the button while reading a PDF article should now find the article in Scholar, so you can cite it, save it, or explore related articles. If Scholar Button doesn't find the right article, please select its title on the webpage.
Scholar Button is currently available for Chrome and Firefox.
Posted by Belinda Shi, Kyu Jin Hwang, and Alex Verstak.
