Firefox Extensions and Library Tools

ConQuery Catalog & Federated Search (CCFS)

ConQuery, created by Vasa Maximov, allows Mozilla Firefox users to highlight/select any text they see on a web page, right-click, and then automatically query that text in any one of a number of search engines.

Why should I care? You're reading a case, or an article on a web site, and you come across a reference to a book, a person, or a journal article. Is this book at Ford Library? Is the article available online? With CCFS installed, just select the relevant text, right-click and choose 'Query to...' from the pop-up menu. Your search results appear without extra typing or opening a new browser window.

The basic installation of ConQuery comes with several default search engine plugins (Amazon, Google, Creative Commons, etc.) Your Ford Library Systems Librarian has created 4 additional search plugins for ConQuery that will allow you to:
search the Duke University (and Fuqua) Library Catalog by title keywords
search the Duke University (and Fuqua) Library Catalog by words at the start of a title
search a word or phrase in Duke's MetaLib Federated Search tool
search the UNC-Chapel Hill Library Catalog by words at the start of a title

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