Thing 7 - Firefox extensions

Week 3

Preparation

We will be using remote desktopping during the workshop in 1.015. Please seee me if you don’t know how to do this.This will mean you only need to make any changes once.

Pre download firefox 3 from :

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

It will mean we are all using the same version and make it easier to support during the time we have.

If you are unsure or need some help there is a screencast here:

Cooking with Gas

The session is covered in the screencast below:

We will look at the following topics:

1) Why use firefox.

2) What is an extension and some good ones

3) Pimping your firefox

4) Adding toolbars

WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO BEFORE YOU CAN TICK OFF THING 7:

1) add a theme

The Screencast shows you how here

2) add an extension

Screencast shows you how  here

3) add the 23 things toolbar from here

The toolbar has most of the things that you are doing for the 23 things session.

It also has some nifty features like a 23 things chat, local radio rss feeds to everyone’s blogs and the like.

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Thing 8 - Zotero and LibX

Zotero

Zotero is a free firefox extension to help you collect, manage and cite your research resources. With Zotero, you can:

• extract citations from a wide variety of websites, library catalogues, and subscription databases.
• Store PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages
• Create formatted bibliographies
• export to endNote and RefWorks
• integrate with MS Word and blogging software such as WordPress

Downloading Zotero

1. Using Firefox, go to  Zotero Website
2. Click on the Download link. If you get a message “firefox prevented this site from asking you to install software on your computer” click on Allow.
3. At the Software Installation screen, click on Install now.
4. Once installation is complete, restart Firefox.

Setting up link to SFX FindIt

This is to make sure when you click on the “Locate” button for a Zotero record, you go to our SFX Findit service rather than the default OCLC page.

1. Open Zotero (click on Zotero at the bottom right of your browser)
2. Go to Actions/ preferences/general. In the openURL section replace the default resolver link with:  http://sfxprod.aarlin.edu.au:9003/murdoch2

Getting Started

1. Read the Quick Start Guide or watch the Tour and Demo at http://www.zotero.org/documentation/quick_start_guide.
2. Read 7 things you should know about Zotero

Useful tutorial if you want some more information.

LibX

LibX Murdoch University Library is a Firefox extension that provides direct access to your Library’s resources.

• Adds a toolbar to your browser so that you can search resources including the library catalogue, library portal, and Google Scholar, e-books, Murdoch theses, movies.
• Adds links in web sites such as Google Scholar and Amazon to our catalogue and to SFX Findit.
• Adds instant access to subscription resources via our wam proxy when off campus.

Downoading LibX

Using Firefox, download the Murdoch University Library Toolbar (LibX Murdoch) from our website at http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/mylibrary/tools.html

More information

See our website http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/mylibrary/LibX/index.html

WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO BEFORE YOU CAN TICK OFF THING 8

1. Download Zotero and LibX
2. Add some resources to your Zotero Library. Try to include something from the Library Catalogue, a database and a website such as Google Scholar.
3. Choose one of the extensions covered in Things 7 and 8 and write a blog entry on whether you would use it and why.

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