Presentation by Barbara Arnett and Valerie Forrestal (of Stevens Institute) for the METRO library council webinar: Three Tech Tools, One Objective: Improving Library Services.

1. Bridging the gap from Wikipedia to scholarly resources:a simple JavaScript search tool Barbara ArnettWeb Services Librarian Valerie ForrestalCommunications & New Media Strategies Librarian Stevens Institute of Technology

2. Project History: Elsevier 2010 API app challenge (for creative use of the ScienceDirect open content API) Firefox add-on so researchers can search ScienceDirect from anywhere on the web, without going through the library’s website/ScienceDirect interface Added functionality: auto-populate search box to encourage Wikipedia/Google users to expand their research to library resources Issues: compatibility with other browsers search limited to ScienceDirect content aversion to add-ons due to Firefox memory-hogging managing code updates Solution: Cross-browser compatible JS bookmarklet (inspired by bit.ly,etc) + Ebsco Discovery Service

3. Inspiration: Bit.ly bookmarklet

4. Install page

5. Bookmarklet in browser

6. Search prompt

7. Search results

8. JavaScript code Code, part 1: javascript that sits in bookmarklet-- javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='http://www.stevens.edu/library/js/search.js';})();

9. Code, part 2: javascript that is executed in http://www.stevens.edu/library/js/search.js-- { // ***************** Google analytics code BEGIN *******************// var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-18930XXX-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { varga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google- analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); // ***************** Google analytics code END *******************// var Ti=document.title.replace('- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia',''); void(Ti=prompt('Edit search terms:',Ti)); if(Ti) { varsearchString='http://ezproxy.stevens.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&scope=site&type=0&cli0=FT1&clv0=Y&bquery='+(Ti); window.location.href=searchString; } }

10. More info: Contact: Barbara Arnett: barnett@stevens.edu Valerie Forrestal: valerie.forrestal@stevens.edu Details: Presentation available at: http://slidesha.re/LibSearch Server-side code available at: http://www.stevens.edu/library/js/search.js