What is a widget? Widgets (also known as gadgets) are Web objects or applications that contain dynamic content, which can be easily embedded onto a Web site or into Blackboard. Create your own widgets! Use the table of contents RSS feeds from your favorite academic journals (find RSS feed URLs from the list at CiteULike) and add them into the widget builder at sites like SpringWidgets or WidgetBox to create a personal widget which provides you updated information on your research interests.

Baylor Libraries Search Widget

Search the Baylor Libraries' web site, BearCat (our online catalog) by keyword, title or author, our subscription databases by keyword and subject, e-journals by title, across multiple subscription databases at once, Google Scholar and Google Books. Easily embeddable onto any web page, content management system, or personalized homepages like iGoogle or Netvibes.

LibX add-on, Baylor University Edition

LibX Firefox add-on (.xpi file)
LibX Internet Explorer add-on (.exe file)

LibX is an add-on for your web browser that provides direct access to the Baylor Libraries' resources by adding a toolbar, right-click options and embedded cues.

Custom Scholarly Database Search Engines for Firefox

Click on the name of the database to add the search engine to your search toolbar.

• ACM Digital Library
• ArXiv.org
• IEEExplore
• Jstor
• Science Direct

Book Burro

Book Burro is an extension for Firefox and Flock. When it senses you are looking at a page that contains a book, it will overlay a small panel which when opened lists prices at online bookstores such as Amazon, Buy, Half (and many more) and whether the book is available at your library.

Zotero

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself.

CiteMe Facebook App

Get formatted citations in APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, or Turabian style directly in Facebook. Start by searching for an item in WorldCat, the world's largest network of library content and services. Find your title in the results, select your favorite format, and you're done.

Research Content Widgets

EBSCOhost Search Box Builder

Create a widget to search selected EBSCOhost databases from any web page or Blackboard course. (To make sure students can log in and get access to the resources, use the proxy prefix http://ezproxy.baylor.edu/login?url= and choose the "Cookie" and "User ID/Password" checkboxes.)

Example:

Research with Academic Search Complete:

ProQuest Search Widget

Create a widget to search selected ProQuest databases from any web page or Blackboard course.

Example:

Gale Widgets

Create widgets to search database content from Gale Cengage.

Example:

Encyclopedia Britannica

Add articles from Encyclopedia Britannica to a course web page or Blackboard.

Example:

Mobile Widgets

Mobile WorldCat

Search WorldCat from your iPhone.