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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.

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Search the Health Databases:

Health Databases
Limit Your Results

Databases being searched are:Alt Healthwatch, Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition, CINAHL Complete, Health Source: Consumer Edition,Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Medline with Full Text, PsycINFO

 

Search the Business and Communications Databases:

BSC and CMMC
Limit Your Results

Databases being searched: Business Source Complete and Communications and Mass Media Complete

Search Everything:

Research databases
Limit Your Results

 

All of our EBSCO databases that we currently subscribe to

EBSCO host logo

Search Academic Search Complete

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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