Category Archives: Tools & Plugins

Add a Catalogue search to your browser

Do you use the inbuilt search box in the top right of your browser toolbar? If so, you can now add a UniMelb Library Catalogue Keyword search to your list of browser search engines in Firefox 2 or higher and Internet Explorer 7 or higher.

Firefox users:
1. Visit the library home page;
2. Click on the arrow [...]

LibX UniMelb toolbar updated for Firefox 3.5

Now that Firefox 3.5 has been officially released we have updated the LibX UniMelb toolbar so it will be compatible. You can download the new version of LibX UniMelb even if you haven’t upgraded to Firefox 3.5 yet.

LibX UniMelb Toolbar updated

Yesterday we released an update to the LibX UniMelb toolbar to deal with a couple of issues. The main fix was a change to our Proxy server address, as the library now has a new server. We also were forced to remove the Author and Article searches from e-Journals in SuperSearch as they were not [...]

Content linking from the Library Catalogue

Usability studies suggest that many library clients commence their information discovery in the library web catalogue.
However, the nature of web publishing and dissemination now means that many valuable sources of information are unrepresented in the catalogue, particularly not in the traditional form of metadata records describing only those items the Library has in its collections.
From [...]

Bookmark titles in the Library Catalogue

Bruce has been busy this week – after the upgrade to WebPac Pro he added a new feature to the catalogue which helps you to save a link directly to a title. Look for the   button on the title details page. You can use this button to save a link to the title in [...]

LibX UniMelb online training

I’ve made a few short demonstration screencasts to show the features and use of the LibX UniMelb toolbar and shared them on screencast.com:

A demonstration of LibX UniMelb Toolbar Search features;
A demonstration of the LibX UniMelb Shortcut Menu;
A demonstration of LibX UniMelb Onscreen Cues; and
A few of the available LibX UniMelb Preferences.

These are [...]

LibX UniMelb Toolbar Extension for Firefox

LibX UniMelb is a browser extension that helps you research online quickly and efficiently. It highlights resources UniMelb library owns and autolinks via ISBNs, ISSNs, PubMed IDs and CrossRef DOIs directly from other web pages. Install the LibX UniMelb extension in your Firefox or Internet Explorer web browser and you can:

Use the toolbar to [...]

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