[Web4lib] Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search

[Jim Campbell]

But if you've got a resolver in there, then you control where the link to
the article goes, not ProQuest or Google.  As long as your users click on
your link and not ProQuest's, then they'll go to your subscriptions.  It
would work just as it does in Google Scholar.  There if Google links to the
Springer site and we have that journal only in InfoTrac, then our users can
skip the Springer link and go to the InfoTrac version via our resolver.

Lobby Google to implement resolver links in News Archive as they've already
done in Scholar.  Fill out those comment forms. Rouse that library rabble.

- Jim Campbell
Campbell at Virginia.edu
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Rudy Leon
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:13 PM
> To: Web4Lib
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search
> 
> It's not just a link resolver issue -- it sounds like 
> ProQuest is actively working around allowing subscribing 
> institutions to access their subscriptions when using the 
> google news search process. If ProQuest allowed google to 
> publish the link to a standard ProQuest database, our users 
> could access those articles to which the library has 
> subscription access. By having it in this 'archiver" address, 
> we are shut out.
> 
> Oh and wouldn't it be lovely if that other major news 
> database allowed article-level linking? We can't really blame 
> Google for that quirk.
> 
> On 9/6/06, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind at jhu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > How can we and Google make this work with our link 
> resolvers to direct 
> > patrons to content we already pay for, like Google Scholar does?
> >
> > A big problem is that our databases most likely to contain 
> newspaper 
> > content do not work that well with link resolver linking (not 
> > neccesarily allowing article level linking). But at least it would 
> > notify the user that they could get the content for free. 
> Is the user 
> > willing to pay $5 to avoid dealing with our bad interfaces? 
> Possibly.
> >
> > Another problem is that public libraries probably don't have link 
> > resolvers right now. I think they soon will need to.
> >
> > A final potential problem is that Google's publisher 
> partners may not 
> > be happy about Google directing users away from their 
> revenue stream, 
> > and Google may not be willing to make them unhappy in this way.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> 
> --
> Rudy Leon
> Instruction & Collection Development Librarian College 
> Libraries SUNY Potsdam
> (315) 267-3309
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