[WEB4LIB] Re: Welcome to the Schoogle Era

[Rob Weidman]

Indeed there is some tie in to OpenURL services here -- but only when 
Google Scholar includes Crossref doi links

For example: 
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=author%3AZhang+COOH-terminal-binding+protein

For me, the link brings up our local SFX menu with appropriate copy 
information.

Of course this type of link seems to be the exception. According to the 
crossref search information previously mentioned,  the links will use 
the DOI "whenever possible," but I am not seeing too many examples where 
this is the case.

"Results are returned from Google using the Google search and ranking 
algorithms, and using the article's DOI whenever possible to link from 
the search results to the published article." 
http://www.crossref.org/crossrefsearch.html

-rob-

Karen Coyle wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 08:13, Thomas Dowling wrote:
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>>Yeah but...
>>
>>This goes a long way toward undoing the last three or four years of work 
>>on the appropriate copy problem.  Google knows an article exists: good.  
>>Google points you to (and only to) some publisher's web site: maybe 
>>good, maybe bad.  You may have access there, in which case it's good.  
>>You may have access to the same article online through a different 
>>aggregator, in which case it's remarkably bad.
>>    
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>
>So what you're saying is that Google needs to implement the OpenURL?
>What this brings up is the difference between open, public access
>systems, like Google, and systems that rely on some level of
>"belonging", like being a bona fide member of an educational
>institution, or a card-holder at a particular library. As long as some
>information resources need to be paid for we'll need to monitor the
>state of "belonging" in order to provide access, and as we know that is
>a difficult problem on a scale the size of "Google users everywhere." 
>
>What would be interesting would be to combine Schoogle with
>CreativeCommons and give preferred access to resources that are
>available with a CC license. CC has its own search engine for
>CC-licensed works, but it's a mish-mosh of odd web pages and signficant
>works. 
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