Post on 10-May-2015
description
Invading their personal space
(in the nicest possible way)
A question
What is the first research tool your clients turn to when looking for information?
A web-browser!
• Telephone directory
• Real estate
• Personals
• Newspapers
• Wikipedia
• (To keep the rabbits out)
Let’s lay down some breadcrumbs
• The best kind of advertising is pervasive
• Be everywhere our users look to find information
How can we do that?
• Gadgets and widgets
• OpenSearch plugins
• Browser extensions
Gadgets and widgets
Why use gadgets?
• Who has their homepage set to Google?
• How many times each day do you open a Web browser?
• (You can put them on pages other than Google, too)
OpenSearch plugins
Why use OpenSearch?
• Search directly from the browser
• Only need to specifically visit a page once
• Simple to implement
• Very simple to install
• Very simple to use
The OpenSearch document description
Linking from a Web page
Browser extensions
• Considerably enhances the functionality of Web browsers
• Several are available– LibX– Zotero
What does LibX do?
• Contextual links– ISBNs– DOIs– Google
• Highlight and right-click a word to search
• Build searches using the toolbar
• Reload pages through EZProxy/WAM
• Hook into an OpenURL resolver
What does Zotero do?
• Manage your references
• Web pages, journal articles, books
• Grabs data from a wide variety of sources
• Format bibliographies in Word
What’s the best thing?
It’s all free (as in beer)
Browser compatibility
Internet Explorer 7• Gadgets• OpenSearch• LibX (coming soon!)
Firefox 2• Gadgets• OpenSearch• LibX• Zotero
Where can I find these wonderful toys?
• http://www.google.com/ig
• http://www.libx.org/
• http://www.zotero.org/