(where APP = Automatic PDF Pusher)<\/p>\n
I have five browser tabs open to article abstracts, from four different journals.<\/p>\n
All five articles are currently published as provisional PDFs.<\/p>\n
All look interesting and\/or relevant to my work, but don’t quite tip the balance into “OMG I must read this NOW even though it’ll take up way more paper and I’ll constantly be flipping back and forth between the text, figures, and figure legends” territory.<\/p>\n
And so I wait, hitting the refresh button in each tab every morning.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it takes weeks<\/em> for the final, formatted version to appear.<\/p>\n Five tabs at a time is enough to make me start thinking about alternatives; my usual range would be 1-3 such tabs per week.<\/p>\n Wouldn’t it be great if there was an option on the article’s home page to receive an email \/ text \/ smart phone notification once the provisional PDF is replaced by a nicely formatted version?<\/p>\n I hereby claim copyright of this idea and demand a share of the no doubt extensive royalties it will generate. For the record, I’d almost certainly think about<\/a> spending 99 cents on the iPhone app version.<\/p>\n Who’s with me? And what other geeky apps would you probably think about spending 99 cents on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (where APP = Automatic PDF Pusher) I have five browser tabs open to article abstracts, from four different journals. All five articles are currently published as provisional PDFs. All look interesting and\/or relevant to my work, but don’t quite tip … Continue reading