Firefox Toolbar Extension - LibX
FHCRC Arnold Library Edition

This tool gives you quick, easy access to select resources! LibX - FHCRC Arnold Library Edition is a Firefox extension that allows you to directly search library resources from your browser's toolbar.

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Highlighted Features

Our LibX Toolbar Extension provides the following quicklinks that are always present from a drop-down menu in your Firefox browser toolbar.

• Search FHCRC Catalog
• Search WorldCat
• Search PubMed
• Search FHCRC Library Journal List

When searching for articles using PubMed, the PubMed Identifer number (PMID) will now appear as a link. When you click this link, you will be sent to the Library's Get Article page, which has links to full-text options.

LibX places linked cues in web pages not on the FHCRC web site if the FHCRC Arnold library has resources related to that page. Whenever you see the , click on it to look at what our library has to offer.

Alternatively, you can search very specifically for a book that you found to see if the Arnold library has a copy. For example, if you found a book on the Amazon web site, you can highlight the title of the book or other term you want to search for, right click and select Search Arnold Library catalog from the drop-down menu that appears (grey below). The results will indicate if we have the book and the status of the book. (Other sites that have this functionality, indicated by the presence of our H icon, are Google, Yahoo! Search and Powell's Books.)

The right-click context menu changes automatically depending on what is selected. For instance, if an ISBN is selected, the context menu will offer the option to search directly using that specific identifier. Currently recognized are ISBNs, ISSNs, and PubMed IDs.

Installing Toolbar

This extension works with Firefox only. It does not work with other browsers such as Internet Explorer or Safari. It has been tested with Firefox versions 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh OS-X.

Install LibX Firefox Toolbar Extension

If Firefox displays a message "To protect your computer, Firefox prevented this site from installing software on your computer.", press the button labeled "Edit Options..." and click "Allow". Then click "OK" and visit the "Install" link again. If the toolbar is blank after installation (does not contain links to FHCRC Library), install the most current version of Firefox, then install LibX again.

To uninstall: In Firefox, go to "Tools," then "Extensions" or "Add-ons" highlight LibX, then click the button that says "Uninstall." Restart your browser.

Copyright Notice

LibX is distributed under the Mozilla Public License. The copyright is held jointly by Annette Bailey and Virginia Tech.

Privacy

By using this extension you may send the URL of pages you are currently visiting to your library's catalog server. Such information is sent only if you are actively using the extension; it is never sent automatically. If you wish to avoid this you must turn off the referrer URL by setting network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0 in your preferences.

For more information about LibX, visit the LibX Homepage.