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UNC Libraries on your Google home page

Do you use a personalized Google home page?

Here's how to add content from UNC Libraries to your Google home page.

A Google home page - a screenshot with the UNC Library Catalog module and a bookmark section with links to article databases



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Search UNC Libraries from your Google home page
Add the UNC Library Catalog to your Google home page. (Note: Sorry, does not work for Mac users)

Instructions:
  1. Go to http://www.google.com/ig
  2. Log in to your Google account, if necessary
    (Note: If you do not have a Google account, at the bottom of page it says "Save this page and take it with you using your Google Account." Click on Google Account link to set up an account)
  3. Click Add Content (in upper left-hand corner of screen)
  4. Next to "Search Homepage Content" button, click Add by URL link

    Google Homepage Content Search screen and location of the Add by URL link

  5. Enter one of the following URLs:
    UNC Libraries
 Catalog module for Google home page including UNC graphic With the UNC graphic
    http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/eref/unccat.xml
    UNC Libraries
 Catalog module for Google home page without UNC graphic Without the UNC graphic
    http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/eref/unccat2.xml

Now you can search the UNC Library Catalog or go directly to Advanced Search, World Cat, Article Databases, or the E-Journal Finder from your Google Page.


Link to article databases on your Google home page

Instructions:

  1. Go to http://www.google.com/ig
  2. Log in to your Google account, if necessary
    (Note: If you do not have a Google account, at the bottom of page it says "Save this page and take it with you using your Google Account." Click on Google Account link to set up an account)
  3. Click Add Content (in upper left-hand corner of screen)
  4. Do a search for Bookmarks

    Searching for bookmarks in Google database of Homepage Content
  5. Choose the first search result and click Add it Now button.

    Searching for bookmarks in Google database of Homepage Content
  6. Open another browser window. Go to the Libraries Main Page at http://www.lib.unc.edu
  7. Click Article Databases
  8. Find database by subject or title, or in the Getting Started box. Click on orange [info] link.
  9. Copy link from browser bar
  10. Go back to your Google home page. In Bookmarks, click edit
  11. Add the URL and enter the database name (e.g. Academic Search Premier, Lexis-Nexis, JSTOR, BIOSIS, MLA, PsycInfo, etc.)

Now you can go to UNC Libraries article databases directly from your Google home page.

 

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This page was last updated Tuesday, June 05, 2007.