Google Scholar search plugin for Firefox & more

[george at library.caltech.edu]

Peter Suber posted the following announcement to SPARC Open Access News.

BioMed Central <http://www.biomedcentral.com/>  has developed a Google
Scholar search plugin
<http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/toolbar/firefox#scholar>  for
Firefox <http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/> . (PS: Earlier
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_11_14_fosblogarchive.html#a1100
62361147911151>  this week, BMC released a BMC-search plugin
<http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/toolbar/firefox>  for Firefox.)

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Posted by Peter Suber to Open Access News
<http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_11_14_fosblogarchive.html#11008
8834866818122>  at 11/19/2004 01:14:08 PM 
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Gary Price weighed in on ERIL-L this morning regarding the search plugin
euphoria this week.  Paraphrasing, with permission:

A free toolbar called NeedleSearch allows you to add the search
functionality of ANY web search tool to the Firefox toolbar with just A
SINGLE click. It couldn't be easier. It's also then possible to
manipulate the search url to add limits, etc.

More about NeedleSearch:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3307551

Gary's also "tweaked" NeedleSearch to limit to only Open WorldCat
records via Yahoo.  Details in this post, in the section labeled Update:
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/11/oclcyahoo-toolbar.html
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George S. Porter
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