Forcing a click-thru legal agreement (no robots, etc.)

[David Moore]

Has anyone set up your library database access to force a page of legal
wording to be acknowledged by the user before the user is taken through the
search page? If so, would you share your example? We are looking into doing
something like this, in order to more effectively get the word out that use
of robots or any other repetitive downloading of articles from our databases
is not prohibited.

Thanks!

David P. Moore
Electronic Resources/Business Librarian
M. Louis Salmon Library
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899
256-824-6285
FAX: 256-824-6083
mooredp at uah.edu
http://www.uah.edu/library

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Binkley, Peter
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:54 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Google Scholar, Firefox, and OpenURLs

As a proof-of-concept I've built a Firefox extension that adds OpenURL links
to the results lists in Google Scholar. It can be downloaded here:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~pbinkley/gso/ . The functionality is pretty basic
but it shows what might be possible.

Ideally, Google will build this functionality directly into Google Scholar,
and we'll be able to integrate Google Scholar fully with our local access
systems. In the meantime, this extension is fun to play with. It is by no
means perfect, but it is perhaps a taste of what we have to look forward to.

You'll need the latest version of Firefox to use it (1.0, not the 1.0
preview).

Peter

Peter Binkley
Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
Information Technology Services
4-30 Cameron Library
University of Alberta Libraries
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2J8
Phone: (780) 492-3743
Fax: (780) 492-9243
e-mail: peter.binkley at ualberta.ca