Hold Everything! Google Scholar *Preferences*

[Andrew K. Pace]

Web4Lib-ers,
Anyone seen Google Scholar today?  There's a new "Preferences 
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar_preferences?prev=/>" section.
Now if you are lucky enough to have your institution listed, you will 
get a link to your resolver within your hitlist results.
Interestingly, the firefox extension trumps this link, I can't really 
discern the logic of when the resolver link appears and when it 
doesn't.  I've only been looking at this for 5 minutes, but I don't 
think I like this direction.  Wouldn't it be better if Google simply 
tried to send back the openURL so that extensions and bookmarklets would 
work properly?  I think they are using DOI and OCLC# to build the links 
to various resolvers.  Are they going to offer every library's resolver 
here?   There's an idea, Google as the authoritative list of link resolvers!
-Andrew

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Andrew K. Pace, M.S.L.S.
Head, Systems ~ NCSU Libraries
North Carolina State University ~ Raleigh, NC
Columnist, American Libraries
Columnist, Computers in Libraries
andrew_pace at ncsu.edu ~ 919-515-3087
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/pace
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