Install Firefox add-on

If Firefox displays a message "To protect your computer, Firefox prevented this site... from installing software on your computer.", press the button labelled "Edit Options..." and click "Allow" add libx.org to the list of websites from which extensions may be installed. Then click "Ok" and visit the "Install" link again.

In Google Scholar you can customize your preferences so it knows you are using the Claremont Colleges Libraries. This will help you link to library subcriptions when searching, whether you are on or off campus.

1. Go to the Scholar Preferences page

2. In the Library Links box, search on Claremont Colleges

3. Select both options that come up

4. Scroll down and save your preferences.

5. Now you'll see a "Full Text @ My Library" link that will link you to library subscriptions (and free articles).

1. Go to the Scholar Preferences page

2. Go to  Bibliography Manager at the bottom of the screen

3. Select " Show links to import citations into" and choose RefWorks

3. Save your preferences

4. Now you'll see an "import into RefWorks" link under every citation in Google Scholar.

1. Toolbar: LibX is a Firefox toolbar that allows you to quickly search the Blais catalog, Link+ Catalog, Google Scholar, the E-Journals List, and Open WorldCat
2. Right-click menu: when you have installed LibX you can highlight text on a web page or PDF and right-click for a menu of search options
3. Embedded links: LibX will also embed links on search results in Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Scholar, NYT Book Reviews, and more that will lead you to Claremont-only resources

1. Toolbar: Enter search words in the box in the LibX toolbar; Blais catalog is the default, but you can switch to Link+, the E-Journals List, Open WorldCat or Google Scholar. You can search by multiple terms in different fields (author, title, ISBN/ISSN, call number.) and by clicking on the down arrow you can add additional search boxes. Which fields can be searched changes based on which database is being searched.

2. Right-click menu: Highlight text on a web page or PDF document and right-click (or control-click for one-button Mac users) to get the following menu:

From this menu you can:

• directly search Blais or Google Scholar (try this with a citation you need!)
• get off-campus access to Claremont-only resources by reloading the page via our ez-proxy server.
  

Alternatively, instead of right-clicking, you can drag and drop the selected text into the search box on the toolbar, or directly onto the Google Scholar button (which will immediately run a Scholar search).

Also, the context menu will change, depending on what text is highlighted. For instance, if an ISBN is selected, you will be offered appropriate ISBN searches.

3. Embedded links: within Amazon, Barnes & Noble, NYT Book Reviews, etc.

LibX places the cue in web pages such as:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• New York Times Book Reviews and more...
• Open WorldCat (worldcat.org)
• Google Scholar (make sure you set your scholar preferences to include Claremont as your library if you work off-campus)

Click on the cue to see if Claremont owns the book or get online access to the article.

Copyright:

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.

In addition, you may be sending information such as ISBN and ISSN numbers to OCLC, DOIs to CrossRef's server, and PubMed IDs to the PubMed server in order to retrieve metadata information. If configured for your edition, you may also send URLs to your library's EZProxy to determine whether the current page can be proxied when using the right-click context menu. Use the LibX -> Preferences panel to turn these services off if desired.

For more information about LibX, visit the LibX Homepage.