[WEB4LIB] Hold Everything! Google Scholar *Preferences*

[Ross Singer]

I feel suddenly without a purpose.

Andrew K. Pace wrote:

>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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