New LibX Blog
In this blog, we’ll be reporting about our work on LibX. Each post will highlight a feature and/or development. The purpose of the blog is to create a record of our work on LibX and share it with the...
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Reading New York Times articles with LibX
Stephen Francoeur asked on the LibX mailing list about the New York Times Libapp that allows users to read NY Times articles through their institutional subscription. Here’s what it currently does....
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How to set up LibX with the Summon API
A key goal of LibX 2.0 is to integrate with services such as Summon, which provides an API. Whereas LibX 1.5 mostly provided links a user could click on to initiate a search, LibX 2.0 aims to provide...
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Edition Recommendation System
We are now introducing the edition recommendation system to LibX to make it even easier to find the correct edition for your university. Whenever you visit the LibX home page, a list of editions will...
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Enhancing Autolinking with Summon
LibX has always supported autolinking for identifiers such as ISBNs, ISSNs, DOIs, and others. When LibX believes that a page contains such identifiers, it will place a link where they are located on...
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Enhancing Search Engines with Summon
The very first version of LibX provided a cue on the google.com page that, when clicked, led to the user’s library catalog. While this cue is no longer shown, we now have an even cooler feature for...
View ArticleHow to create your own Libapps in LibX 2.0
In LibX 2.0, all code that runs in pages (for autolinking, etc.) is based on LibApps. You can see the LibApps running in your edition by selecting the “LibApps” tab in the Preferences. It is possible...
View ArticleWhich languages does LibX support?
We have translations for LibX in a number of languages, the full translations of all terms can be found here. As of 8/15/2015, this includes English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese....
View ArticleLibX, Firefox, and Signatures
LibX is currently working in Google Chrome. LibX is currently disabled in Firefox version 43. We have edited LibX code so that it has passed Mozilla’s automatic verification. We can now upload code,...
View ArticleSigned LibX Add-On Pushed for Firefox
We just pushed a signed LibX add-on for Firefox. If you want to pull in the update immediately, open the Firefox browser, select Add-Ons, then Check for Updates. It will ask you to restart the browser....
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