[Web4lib] Problems with Google Scholar Link Resolver links?

[Bob Duncan]

----- "Bob Duncan" <duncanr at lafayette.edu> wrote:
> 
> If you mean Google Scholar is not generating any OpenURL links for
> your institution, we're seeing the same thing, and I just communicated
> with someone else who is similarly afflicted.  Both of us are using
> WebBridge, so it must be a GS thing (which isn't terribly surprising
> considering their abnormal OpenURL practices).

The situation appears to have been rectified (for us and a couple of other libraries I've checked).  FWIW, I'm off-campus at the moment and had to delete all my Google cookies in order to reset Scholar's preferences to show the previously missing links.  FWIW#2, I think there was definitely something funky afoot at GS -- a library that was having problems due to an error in their institutional_links.xml file is back to having the old problem.  The file had been corrected, GS crawled the new file and things were working, but it appears that GS has restored the old file and not yet done new crawls yet.

Bob Duncan


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