another tactic-- Integrating Google Scholar with paid library licenses

[george at library.caltech.edu]

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/resources/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> .) 

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