[WEB4LIB] Re: Hold Everything! Google Scholar *Preferences*

[Ross Singer]

But seriously, it would be much more useful (and easier) if they just 
got involved with:

http://curtis.med.yale.edu/dchud/resolvable/

-Ross.

Ross Singer wrote:

>I feel suddenly without a purpose.
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>Andrew K. Pace wrote:
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>>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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