{"id":1812,"date":"2010-04-06T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T07:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2010-04-06T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T07:53:17","slug":"libx-toolbar-for-curtin-university-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/libx-toolbar-for-curtin-university-library\/","title":{"rendered":"LibX toolbar for Curtin University Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frustration is the mother of motivation for me today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the final stretches of my thesis and am doing a further literature review.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted a LibX toolbar to make my research quicker and easier, but the library at Curtin University where I am studying hadn&#8217;t built one.<\/p>\n<p>LibX is so magically, wonderfully useful to me as a researcher, that I took a couple of hours and used the <a href=\"http:\/\/libx.org:8080\/editionbuilder\/src\/zul\/index.zul\">LibX Edition Builder<\/a> to create a LibX Toolbar that works for Curtin University Library. It is here, <a href=\"http:\/\/libx.org\/editions\/55\/8E\/558E4EC6\/libx.html\">LibX Unendorsed Curtin University, Western Australia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I needed to look carefully at the way the URLs were built for their SFX link resolver, their Ex Libris catalogue, and their authentication server, but once I had that figured out it was just a matter of plugging info into a few blanks and testing, testing, testing.<\/p>\n<h3>THE &#8220;SO WHAT?&#8221; OF LIBX FOR ME<\/h3>\n<p>With the LibX toolbar installed in Firefox, if I get to an article from the web on JSTOR or any other publication to which my uni library subscribes, I can just right click on the page, enter my student number and password and get to the full text. I can even click straight through to full text articles from the references in Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>LibX also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> lets me search the library catalogue or federated search straight from the toolbar of my browser, without having to go to the library catalogue page.<\/li>\n<li>hotlinks ISBNs anywhere on any web page so that when I click on them, it will show the work in my library catalogue.<\/li>\n<li>inserts an icon when I browse Amazon.com that lets me click to see whether the item is in the library.<\/li>\n<li>For journal articles mentioned anywhere on a web page, it highlights the identifier, and I can click through to the link resolver (SFX) and go straight through to full text of the article if it is in the library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can also drag and drop any text from any page that I am on into the catalogue search box or on to a Google Scholar search box and have it search for that text.<\/p>\n<h3>DISCLAIMER<\/h3>\n<p>This in no way replaces a thorough, scholarly hard-slog database search, but it does make the casual &#8220;presearch&#8221; process a lot, lot faster and easier &#8211; and makes me a lot more likely to use the resources of my library because the library is in my space instead of me having to go to the library&#8217;s space.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve emailed someone at Curtin Library to give them the heads up that I have created it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frustration is the mother of motivation for me today. I&#8217;m in the final stretches of my thesis and am doing a further literature review. I wanted a LibX toolbar to make my research quicker and easier, but the library at Curtin University where I am studying hadn&#8217;t built one. 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