Google Scholar and Library Links

[Moss,Paul]

You have to do a bit of poking around to figure out the right number to use, but you can create a link to the Google Scholar search box like this:

http://scholar.google.com/schhp?inst=569367360547434339


The 'inst' param is the one that you can see in the form submission (using something like livehttpheaders https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/live-http-headers/) when you manually configure your library through the Settings page.  I think the proper link for your institution is this one:

http://scholar.google.com/schhp?inst=450414021512529004


That should automatically configure your library's link resolver as the one to use when the user performs a search regardless of whether they are on campus or not.


Fair warning though: Google makes no guarantee this will continue to work.  They probably will (and have since I first figured this out) change the way that this works.


Paul


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From: Web technologies in libraries <WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU> on behalf of Graham, Stephen <s.graham4 at HERTS.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:28 AM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Google Scholar and Library Links

Hi Laura - yes, we have set this up. We use the Serial Solutions 360 link resolver, and Google grab our holdings from there, so when our users are on-campus (or are off-campus and have explicitly changed the GS settings to use our link resolver), the correct full text links appear. I'm interested if there is a way for students, when off-campus, to be recognised as UH students without changing the settings - via a special "launch" URL which tells Google Scholar where the user is from? I bite like a WAYFless url in Shibboleth terms.

Stephen

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Laura Robbins
Sent: 11 December 2013 15:19
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Google Scholar and Library Links

Google can work with your link resolver company to set this up.  They also have a way to work with libraries that have home-grown link resolvers.  Have you looked at this page?

http://www.google.com/intl/en/scholar/libraries.html

Laura Pope Robbins


On Dec 11, 2013, at 10:16 AM, "Graham, Stephen" <s.graham4 at herts.ac.uk<mailto:s.graham4 at herts.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi All - within the Google Scholar (GS) settings there is the option to set your institution, this determines which link resolver you use when the full text links appear. This is not really necessary on campus because GS can determine, using IP, which institution you are coming from. We currently do not use a proxy such as Ezproxy, but we do have a link to GS from our VLE. Obviously off campus users are not being recognised as UH users, and the full text links are not appears. I know we can tell our users to change the settings, but it would be better if we could somehow, via params in the URL I guess,  tell GS which institutions to automatically set for the  full text links. I've been playing around with this - using combinations of params, but can't get it to work. As anybody else looked at this before?

Stephen

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