The Educated Browser: SmartFox, the Scholar's Web Browser
While many libraries and museums have put materials online, often at great expense, scholars and researchers using these institutions' online catalogs, collections, and documents currently have no easy or powerful way to use these resources
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SmartFox will enable users, with a single click, to grab a citation to a book, journal article, archival document, or museum object and store it in their browser. Researchers will then be able to take notes on the reference, link that reference to others...
SmartFox is being developed by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
from Firefox Scholar (aka SmartFox)
via Open Access News
Sounds good to me. Make it so.
Incidentally, the SmartFox project is from the echo (exploring and collecting history online) site, it's one of the items in their CHNM Tools Center wiki
This is a Wiki that we've put together to build a collaborative resource spanning any and all tools that might be applicable to the practice of online history.
Speaking of wikis, I have added Firefox Scholar to LibSuccess: Web Browser Extensions.
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