[WEB4LIB] Hold Everything! Google Scholar *Preferences*

[Jim Campbell]

They're definitely moving to DOI.  The new CrossRef Newsletter discusses
negotiations between Google, CrossRef, and some of the publishers
participating in the CrossRef pilot.
http://www.crossref.org/01company/10newsletter.html#anchor8

- Jim Campbell
Campbell at Virginia.edu
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Andrew K. Pace
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:16 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Hold Everything! Google Scholar *Preferences*
> 
> 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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> North Carolina State University ~ Raleigh, NC Columnist, 
> American Libraries Columnist, Computers in Libraries 
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