UBC LibGuides: Guidelines

It is recommended that you include an AskAway chat box on the "Contact for research help" page. 

Add the AskAway chat box to the bottom of the page, below your individual contact info

How to reuse a box

Once you have inserted the box into your guide, you can go into the box properties, through the pencil icon on the top right of the box, and check "floating box" to improve the display of the AskAway widget. See the Economics Research Guide for an example

You can use the Summon Widget Builder to create a custom search box with preset filters, using all of the filters you have access to from the main interface. https://ubc.summon.serialssolutions.com/#!/widgets?q=

The boxes below are for a Summon search box, with no preset filters applied

Additional instructions are available from ExLibris: Summon search box, search widget, or carousel

When building the search boxes you have a few options to customize. For option 1, choose fluid as the size to get a box that will adapt to the screen size. If you want some UBC colours, the dark navy is HEX 002145 and the link blue is 0055B7

Most licensed databases from the larger vendors include an option to generate a search widget that can be embedded in a guide. We recommend using the help menu from within the database/platform to locate instructions for creating widgets.