By: Stephen Francoeur

Stephen Francoeur — Sat, 26 May 2007 15:32:21 +0000

Thanks for reminding me of that option That does help for on campus users, and, I suppose, for the off campus users who are savvy enough to tinker with their Google Scholar settings, it’s a nice service too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 May 2007 13:55:00 +0000

Stephen, you should register your library's link resolver with Google Scholar. This will enable you and your patrons to see what articles are accessible through your library. Here is an example of what this looks like:
http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/librarylinks.html

Google has worked with the major link resolver vendors (ex libris, serials solutions, iii, etc.) to make this a simple configuration option in order to put it in place. You should contact your support contact at your link resolver and ask them to enable it with Google Scholar. If, however, your library doesn't have a link resolver, you can register with Scholar SFX, a free hosted solution offered by Ex Libris.

Once this is in place, users coming from the library's IP range will automatically see links in the Google Scholar results that identify what is accessible via the library, and clicking these links will take users to your link resolver to get access. Users from off-campus can enable such links from Google Scholar's preferences.

Were you aware of this option?

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