Athens Toolbar for Firefox
This is mainly aimed at the Glasgow Uni students among you (and anyone else whose university uses the Athens authentication system) – a new extension for Firefox has been released.
The toolbar is created by the company which runs the Athens system (unlike some of the other integration extensions you get for Firefox, which are genearlly unofficial), and provides:
- An indication of which account you are logged in with
- A Log Out button
as well as two dropdown menus which contain most of the functionality
- Athens Options, which contains links to various account-related functions such as login and changing your password
- Athens Resources, which has links to every Athens resource you are entitled to access. This is, IMO, the main reason to have the toolbar – I’m fed up having to retype the Athens web address just to switch from Westlaw to LexisNexis or vice versa.
Oh yeah, almost forgot the link. Like just about every other fx (and tb, sm) extension on the planet, it’s available from Mozilla Update.