Annotating Articles using ProQuest.
Before doing your search of an article via Bobst locate a relevant article or articles using a search engine so you can preview articles and choose one that looks the most relevant. For example, say you are looking for articles on paid family leave policies to find something related to elder care. Your search turns up this OpEd in the New York Times. You could launch hypothes.is from your Chrome browser and annotate it. But what if you had already reached your limit of free articles?
When attempting to annotate such news articles you may find that you are blocked by a paywall. You will also find the source cluttered with ads and may not be able to use the full capabilities of hypothes.is.
Before accessing your article via ProQuest, add your new Scalar page for the annotation assignment, e.g., “Suzanne’s Annotating the News II: Paid Family Leave and Elder Care”, as a path off your parent page. Type in some text describing the article you are annotating. Save the page.
Here are the step-by-step instructions for annotating the article using ProQuest.
First: Note or copy the title or author of the article and also the date of publication.
Second: Sign in to Bobst and search for your article in the news source. When you locate it, open it in ProQuest. You will see two choices. One is the download pdf option. Don’t choose this, choose the url option.
At this point you can do your annotations using the Chrome extension, or you can wait until it is on your page. Copy the url to your clipboard.
Third: Open your new assignment page and go to edit mode. Choose/highlight some relevant text, select external link and paste the url. Save.
Fourth: When you open the ProQuest article you will see “Remove this Header” in the upper right corner. Remove the header so you can launch hypothes.is and annotate. Your article should appear with your annotations if you have already done them. If you want to annotate on the page you will need to do it with the hypothes.is Chrome extension.
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