There's a userscript for Firefox and Chrome users that opens an Ovid PDF in its own window instead of within Ovid. Check out this video to see how it works!
What Userscripts Are
A userscript, according to a BMC Bioinformatics article titled "Userscripts for the life sciences", is "a small program written in JavaScript that is automatically run within a web browser (often by a plugin or add-on)... allowing [the user] to customise web pages exactly the way she wishes." Different browsers require different extensions for these userscripts to work - Greasemonkey for Firefox and Internet Explorer, GreaseKit for Safari (no extension needed for Chrome) - but once they are installed, userscripts provide a personally tailored web experience.
Userscript Resources
The main repository for userscripts is userscripts.org. The article mentioned above points out some good resources, like the userscripts.org tagging system that highlights userscripts useful for biology or chemistry research; in addition, you can search userscripts.org for terms like PubMed, Ovid or PDF and see if there's anything that would make your research easier. In terms of making your life in general easier, LifeHacker compiled a list of their ten favorite userscripts for improving workflow and browsing experience.
David Rothman, a medical librarian blogger, originally posted about the userscript that led to this post; his blog is a great resource for medical research-related technology.
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