Google Scholar and Library Links

[Michelle Dyer-Hurdon]

Paul,

Thanks for sharing this with detailed directions! I just set it up for our
library and it works great.

Michelle


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Moss,Paul <mossp at oclc.org> wrote:

>
>  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>
> 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
>
>
>
> Stephen Graham
>
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>
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