Have you ever found the perfect book at Amazon and wanted to quickly check if it was available at UBC Library? Do you wish you could find a copy of that great journal article cited on a webpage, without having to go into the Library catalogue on another webpage?
LibX is a browser plugin that provides direct access to the UBC Library’s resources from a webpage in two ways.
(1): It creates a searchbox – right in your browser toolbar – that allows you to search the UBC Catalogue, Journals, Google Scholar or WorldCat simply by highlighting or dragging-and-dropping the text. The search box is placed directly below the address bar in your browser, like this:
(2) LibX also places a tiny UBC icon
on pages displaying citation information, such as online book sellers, abstacts, or bibliographies. Clicking the icon takes you to related library offerings. For instance, on book pages at Amazon, the icon will link to the book’s entry in the UBC Library catalogue. The icon is displayed next to the book title, like this:
The icon is displayed at Google, Yahoo! Search, the NY Times Book Review, and other pages.
For more information and to download the plugin, go to: http://www.library.ubc.ca/labs/libx/