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Integrating Search Widgets into Course Web Sites

Provides instructions for inserting widgets for searching library research databases and catalogues into Brightspace or other course web sites.

Try for Yourself

Databases being searched are: Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition, CINAHL Complete, Medline with Full Text, PsycINFO, and SportDiscus.

 

Search the Business and Communications Databases:

Databases being searched: Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete , Communications and Mass Media Complete and Regional Business News.

Search Everything:

 

All of our EBSCO databases that we currently subscribe to

This could be linked to any specific EBSCO database.

How to Insert It into Brightspace

 

Ask the library for the code to the databases you want to search and then paste that code into your course.

 

 

How to Insert into Brightspace. 

  1. Login to Brightspance.
  2. Create a New Page.
  3. You cannot use the typical insert stuff option. You need to click on the three dots to the right of the toolbar (1).
  4. Look for the source icon (2) and select.
  5. Copy and paste the code below into the code box. If there is already some code in the box it is okay to delete it.

Brightspace toolbar with source code icon highlighted.


 

 

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