[WEB4LIB] RE: Google Scholar, Firefox, and OpenURLs

[Binkley, Peter]

 It wouldn't be hard to add functions to detect the Highwire Press syntax of
the J Immunol citation below and extract the volume, issue and start page
from the url. We would end up building a sort of reverse link-resolver: one
that starts with a link to full text and resolves it into an OpenURL,
instead of the other way around. It would also be worth detecting and using
DOIs and PubMed ids in links. Ingenta links seem to have the volume and
issue but not the page number embedded in them. I don't have time to work on
this now but if others care to develop the code, please send me a copy and
I'll post updates to the extension.

I rather hope it's true that Google is holding back on the metadata, since
that would mean they have it; I'm afraid that their spidering techniques
don't allow them to collect the reliable detailed metadata needed to build
OpenURLs. Time will tell.

By the way, there's a bug in my extension that sometimes causes it to fail
to insert buttons. It appears to be triggered if the "journal title" (i.e.
the green text at the beginning of the last line of a citation) has boldface
at the beginning of the line because it contains the search term (e.g.
search for "physiol genomics"). Any javascript programmer could probably
debug this fairly easily.

Peter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Coyle [mailto:kcoyle at kcoyle.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:47 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Google Scholar, Firefox, and OpenURLs
> 
> 
> > This is a pretty neat Firefox extension, though it may be that the 
> > OpenURLs it generates are a little too minimal to create reliable 
> > onward links?
> 
> I suspect that there is something deliberate on Google's part 
> in the paucity of the citation data that they display. 
> Without full dates, issns, volume, number, pagination, etc. 
> (which are the elements that are usually needed to create a 
> link to the full text) it seems unlikely that it will be 
> possible to do anything but follow the link provided by 
> Google. Actually, the URL that Google provides may be the 
> best source of information.
> 
> Google cite:
> Inducible costimulatory molecule-B7-related protein 1 
> interactions are important for the clonal âEUR¦ âEUR¦ , JM 
> Brewer, P Webb, AJ Coyle, C Gutierrez-Ramos, âEUR¦ - Cited by 4 
> Inducing T cell responses requires at least two distinct 
> signals: 1) TCR engagement of MHC-peptide and 2) binding of 
> CD28 to B7.1/2. However, the ..
> J Immunol, 2003 - jimmunol.org - jimmunol.org - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
> 
> URL:
> http://scholar.google.com/url?q=http://www.jimmunol.org/cgi/co
> ntent/full/170/5/2310
> 
> OpenURL:
> http://resolver.library.ualberta.ca/resolver?sid=ualberta:goog
lescholaropenurl&genre=article&title=J%20Immunol&date=2003&atitle=Inducible%
20costimulatory%>
20molecule-B7-related%20protein%201%20interactions%20are%20imp
> ortant%20for%20the%20clonal%20%20%u2026
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