ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, has launched free search widgets for products on its CSA Illumina platform, including a widget for its CSA Illustrata product line. The CSA Illumina and CSA Illustrata Search Widgets - portable search boxes - allow instant searching of these acclaimed research databases from any page of a library or university web site. The widgets are part of ProQuest's larger initiative to help libraries market their collections by embedding them into the users' workflow.
The CSA Illumina platform encompasses unique, sought-after research sources. Its CSA Illustrata product line has become popular with researchers for its ability to surface relevant content from illustrations - information that's often buried in traditional resources. With the Search Widgets, anybody with access to the CSA Illumina Administrative Module can create simple customised search boxes that allow researchers direct access to CSA Illumina and CSA Illustrata databases from any Web page - from course pages to email messages.
The search boxes carry CSA Illumina and CSA Illustrata logos so that users know they're searching deep web content from the library, rather than the free Web. The widgets' flexible "plug and play" design lets libraries set their own search parameters, varying them with the context.
