FWIW, this is what we do as well... for the few people who think "I want
to use Google Scholar, I'll go to the UNC Library website." Still, folks
have learned that to get easy access (after that first hoop) it's worth
it.
-t
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Tim Shearer
Web Development Coordinator
The University Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
[email protected]
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On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, John Wynstra wrote:
We have tested routing off-campus users through our local proxy (WAM) when
they link to Google Scholar from our library website . Not recommending it,
just saying it works since the proxy is in the correct IP range. It has the
benefit of leaving folks authenticated to the documents they will eventually
click to--assuming you are using a rewrite proxy. It doesn't actually set
preferences, so if users happen to go directly to Google Scholar they may be
confused by the missing openURL links.
At first it seemed like a crazy idea, but then the thought was that users are
using Google Scholar as an extension of our website if they click on our
link.
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
When I've experimented with this, I haven't been able to figure out a way
to set my institution in their preferences, without _removing_ any existing
institutions they may have already chosen. I don't want to over-write
their existing preferences, if any, I just want to add my institution to
them!
If anyone figures out a way to do this, I'm interested too.
I actually didn't know about the &inst=X feature allowing you to set the
institution even just for the current session, that's awfully helpful and
better than nothing, thanks!
Jonathan
Godmar Back wrote:
It used to be you could just GET the corresponding form, e.g.:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_setprefs?num=10&instq=&inst=sfx-f7e167eec5dde9063b5a8770ec3aaba7&q=einstein&inststart=0&submit=Save+Preferences
- Godmar
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Stuart Yeates<[email protected]>
wrote:
It's possible to send users to google scholar using URLs such as:
http://scholar.google.co.nz/schhp?hl=en&inst=8862113006238551395
where the institution is obtained using the standard preference setting
mechanism. Has anyone found a way of persisting this setting in the users
browser, so when they start a new session this is the default?
Yes, I know they can go "Scholar Preferences" -> "Save" to persist it,
but I'm looking for a more automated way of doing it...
cheers
stuart
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Library Information Systems Specialist
Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50613
[email protected]
(319)273-6399
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