Bookmarklets

A bookmarklet is a piece of javascript code that enables you to extend the capabilites of your web browser. To add a bookmarklet to your browser, you simply add it to your bookmarks or Favorites list in Internet Explorer or Firefox. You can do this by right-clicking on the link and selecting either "Add to Favorites" or "Bookmark this Link." Even easier is to simply click and drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar, if you use it.

Internet Explorer

Mozilla Firefox

Here are some bookmarklets that might be useful for UNCG students and faculty. To use the bookmarklets, simply highlight on the web page the word or phrase which you wish to search for, then click the bookmark and it will search the resource for the highlighted words. If you do not highlight anything, the bookmarklet will bring up a box in which you can enter your search terms.

For more bookmarklets or more information on them, try the Bookmarklets home page.
To search a specific UNCG database, look at our list of database bookmarklets.

Journal Finder bookmarklet

UNCG Library Catalog bookmarklet

Google bookmarklet

Google Scholar bookmarklet

Dictionary bookmarklet

Thesaurus bookmarklet

Worldcat bookmarklet

JF Google Scholar*

To use this bookmarklet, after having been added, do a search in Google Scholar. When you get your results, click on the bookmarklet. It will do a search of Journal Finder and place a Jackson Library logo underneath those entries it finds a match for. Click on the logo and it runs the search in Journal Finder for you. *Does not work in Internet Explorer

@ My Library

This bookmarklet works with Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Borders websites. If you are looking at a web page showing the details of a book on one of these websites that interests you, click on the bookmarklet, after having been added, and it will search UNCG's catalog for the book.