OpenURL Referrer Installation and Configuration

Note: you must use Firefox as your browser in order to use this extension.

The extension is available at http://www.openly.com/openurlref/.  Open this link and follow the directions under Installation instructions. In order for this extension to connect to York University Libraries full-text resources, you will need to make some changes, as noted in step 4 of the instructions. Follow these steps:

  1. After restarting Firefox, select Extensions from the Tools menu.
  2. An Extensions window will open. Select OpenURL (by clicking it once), then select Options.
  3. Make the following changes:
    OpenURL