BARBARA ARNETT WEB SERVICES LIBRARIAN VALERIE FORRESTAL COMMUNICATIONS & NEW MEDIA STRATEGIES LIBRARIAN STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Bridging the gap from Wikipedia to scholarly resources: a simple JavaScript search tool

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

Inspiration: Bit.ly bookmarklet

Install page

Bookmarklet in browser

Search prompt

Search results

Bookmarklet Bookmarklet = Bookmark + Applet In this case, JavaScript executed instead of a URL Works on Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome

JavaScript code in bookmarklet javascript:(function(){document.body.appendChild(document.createElement ('script')).src=' this executes JavaScript in a file that resides on our web server

Parts of the Bookmarklet 1 – Google Analytics tracking 2 – Prompt box for user to edit search terms  – uses the Page Title for initial search terms 3 – Execute search in federated search

javascript that is executed in { // ***************** Google analytics code BEGIN *******************// var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-18930XXX-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = (' == document.location.protocol ? ' : ' + '.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) { var searchString=' true&site=eds-live&scope=site&type=0&cli0=FT1&clv0=Y&bquery='+(Ti); window.location.href=searchString; }

More info: Contact: Barbara Arnett: Valerie Forrestal: Details: Presentation available at: Server-side code available at: