[WEB4LIB] another tactic-- Integrating Google Scholar with pa id library licenses

Binkley, Peter Peter.Binkley at ualberta.ca
Wed Dec 1 16:53:34 EST 2004


 It wouldn't be hard to take the javascript out of my googlescholaropenurl
Firefox extension and incorporate it into Art's bookmarklet, so that you'd
get the proxied links AND the OpenURL button, usable in any major browser...

Peter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: george at library.caltech.edu [mailto:george at library.caltech.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 01:59 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] another tactic-- Integrating Google 
> Scholar with paid library licenses
> 
> Forwarded from SPARC Open Access News. -- George
> 
> By now you know that Google Scholar links to both OA and 
> non-OA sources.
> When it links to a non-OA source, you learn that it exists 
> and that may be relevant to your search, but you have to pay, 
> log in to or visit your library, or turn to another means for 
> full-text access. If your library has purchased a license to 
> the relevant journal or database, then you have prepaid, 
> no-fee access through the library. But so far GS is not 
> integrated with your library so that you can't click through 
> from the GS hit page to your library's authorized copy. Until 
> now. Art Rhyno 
> <http://web2.uwindsor.ca/library/leddy/people/art/index.html> 
> , a Systems Librarian at the University of Windsor, has 
> developed a bookmarklet 
> <http://librarycog.uwindsor.ca:8087/artblog/librarycog/resourc
> es/proxy>
> to build the needed bridge between GS and your licensed 
> library resources. Quoting from his description: 'Basically, 
> all of the links to [GS] search results get prepended with a 
> specified web address for the library's reverse proxy. Since 
> our web proxy is not likely to be of use to you, the idea is 
> that you copy the bookmarklet to a web server on your own 
> site, and change it to reflect the proxy address in use at 
> your organization.' (Thanks to Library Cog 
> <http://webvoy.uwindsor.ca:8087/artblog/librarycog/1100880268> .) 
> 
> --
> Posted by Peter Suber to Open Access News
> <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2004_11_28_fosblogarchive.
> html#11018
> 2859868001517>  at 11/30/2004 10:11:58 AM
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