LibX Browser Toolbar for the Health Sciences Library
If you like using the Firefox web browser, try our new browser toolbar. It's like taking the library with you wherever you go!
The LibX Toolbar project for Firefox adds a toolbar to your browser allowing you to search the IMPULSE library catalog, our Find Journals portal, PubMed, HubMed, Prospector, Google Scholar, and Wikipedia. What are some of the advantages of the LibX Toolbar?
- Right click functionality: In addition to searching from the toolbar, highlight any term on a web page and right click to search it in any of the toolbar search options.
- Off campus access to library resources: If you frequently browse journal websites from off campus, and wish to skip going to the library web page first, this toolbar is for you. When a publisher website asks you to login, simply right click in the page, select "Reload via HSL off Campus Access". You will then be asked to login with your name and institutional ID to get to the resource (provided it is licensed by the library).
- Embedded cues Do you like to search Google Scholar and Wikipedia? If you have the toolbar installed, you will see our familiar green Article Linker icon for journal citations. Click the Article Linker icon to find out if we provide access (just as you do in PubMed and Ovid).
- PubMed integration: The toolbar integrates with online resources so that when it finds an identifier, such as a PubMed ID number on a web page, it hyperlinks the identifier, so that you can instantly go to our Article Linker resource to get access. Installing the toolbar also eliminates the need to visit the library home page first and click the library's link to PubMed. The toolbar integrates with PubMed, such that the Article Linker icon will automatically appear in your search results whether you followed the library’s link to PubMed or went directly to www.pubmed.gov.
- Quick, simple activation or deactivation of the toolbar: It’s easy to deactivate the toolbar to gain more screen space. Just click the toolbar icon at the bottom of the browser and uncheck “LibX UCD-HSL". Use the same method to restore the toolbar.
The LibX toolbar has been used by many libraries to develop web browser toolbars. It is based on open source programming work done by Annette Bailey and Godmar Back. The HSL version of the LibX toolbar is currently in development and subject to change. It is only available for the Firefox web browser.
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If you have questions about the toolbar and how it works, contact Jeff Kuntzman at Jeff.Kuntzman@uchsc.edu.