Compare Chrome extensions: Georgia Tech Scholar vs Scholar Updates

Stats Georgia Tech Scholar Georgia Tech Scholar Scholar Updates Scholar Updates
User count 225 683
Average rating 4.56 5.00
Rating count 9 2
Last updated 2013-08-19 2019-02-22
Size 53.98K 3.25M
Version 2.0.3 0.23
Short description
Allows chrome to save your GT password, and provides easy access to online journal papers This extension keeps tracks of articles and citations in a Google Scholar profile, providing notification when updates happen.
Full summary

For GT students, by a GT student, GT Scholar facilitates accessing online journal articles.

Two options are provided:

  1. proxying the entire google scholar search pages through GT library, and
  2. adding direct 'proxified' links to articles

Unlike the "Find @ GT" option, GT Scholar links you directly to the journal's abstract page where you are typically one click away from the PDF.

Additionally, and optionally, GT Scholar enables Chrome to save your username and password natively at gthe GT CAS Login page; a feature that GT Login disables by default. To further clarify, the extension itself doesn't store anything; it just makes a minor edit to the login page's HTML at the right time so that Chrome can offer to save the username/password.

The Scholar Updates extension allows for tracking a Google Scholar profile so that one can know when new citations and new articles are added to the profile. It allows to know which articles received the citations. Whenever there are updates, the icon will show a blue exclamation point in it.

Updates are checked every couple of hours, but can be manually triggered by clicking on the extension's icon.