Tools & Gadgets
Find a variety of tools, gadgets and widgets that you may find useful while conducting research. Many of these tools may be used directly or incorporated into other applications such as Google or your browser. Check back with us as we develop more tools to help you in your research.
Database Trials
- NEW! Try out and give us your feedback on trials of new databases
Your input is an important part of the database selection process.
Research bookmarklets (Beta)
To use the bookmarklets below, drag the links to your browser's bookmarks toolbar, or right-click and "add to favorites."
- NEW! New York Times Article Access
If an article is not available to you for free on the New York Times website, use this bookmarklet to access the article through the VCU Libraries LexisNexis subscription. - VCU Libraries off-campus access
Access journals, articles, and other library resources from off-campus without having to go through the library website. What is this? - Amazon to VCU
Find a good resource at Amazon? Check to see if VCU owns it.
(Code courtesy of Fred Stutzman.)
Feeds & Gadgets
- Libraries Blogs and Feeds
News and feeds provided by the Libraries, including feeds and alerts for new titles. - Google gadget for the Libraries Catalog
Add the Libraries catalog to your personalized Google homepage, Blackboard, or any other Web page.
Mobile Tools
- NEW! Mobile group study room reservations for Cabell Library
- Mobile Research Guides
- Quick Article Search for Mobile
- Find Mobile-enabled databases
- WorldCat Mobile Search for books and materials, call a library or map a route to a library near you.
- MEDLINE/PubMed Mobile
- Refworks Mobile The Group Code is on our RefWorks page.
Citation Tools
- Refworks Citation Manager
Use RefWorks to manage your citations/references. - Citation Linker
Find out if we have the full text available for a citation.