[CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?!
Google Scholar has a feature where it will provide links to your local institutional OpenURL link resolver -- by user preference or IP address recognition. It will then present these links sometimes in a right column in Google Scholar results, other times in the row of links under each hit. The hyperlinks in the right column seem to be broken in current Google interface. Clicking on them has no effect. It seems like some kind of javascript failure, although no javascript errors are raised in console. If you open in new tab or open in new window, thus skipping the Google javascript -- it does work. Many of our users use Google Scholar and count on link resolver links working. This is awfully inconvenient. Anyone have any idea of any ways to report this to Google in such a way that they might actually care? Anyone got any internal contacts? Jonathan
Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?!
Hi Jonathan, I found a place for feedback, but I don't know if that will get to the right folks at Google. Try: https://support.google.com/scholar/contact/general I just tried the using the FindIt@ links and they don't work for me either. Click and nothing happens. I also had to re-ad my library to the choices for the link resolver but they still don't work. Sarah On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Google Scholar has a feature where it will provide links to your local institutional OpenURL link resolver -- by user preference or IP address recognition. It will then present these links sometimes in a right column in Google Scholar results, other times in the row of links under each hit. The hyperlinks in the right column seem to be broken in current Google interface. Clicking on them has no effect. It seems like some kind of javascript failure, although no javascript errors are raised in console. If you open in new tab or open in new window, thus skipping the Google javascript -- it does work. Many of our users use Google Scholar and count on link resolver links working. This is awfully inconvenient. Anyone have any idea of any ways to report this to Google in such a way that they might actually care? Anyone got any internal contacts? Jonathan
Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?!
Maybe they've got the same plans for Google Scholar as they did for Reader and other much-adored Google products: to slowly crapify it until it becomes nearly useless, then retire it on short notice. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Sarah Lester sles...@stanford.edu wrote: Hi Jonathan, I found a place for feedback, but I don't know if that will get to the right folks at Google. Try: https://support.google.com/scholar/contact/general I just tried the using the FindIt@ links and they don't work for me either. Click and nothing happens. I also had to re-ad my library to the choices for the link resolver but they still don't work. Sarah On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Google Scholar has a feature where it will provide links to your local institutional OpenURL link resolver -- by user preference or IP address recognition. It will then present these links sometimes in a right column in Google Scholar results, other times in the row of links under each hit. The hyperlinks in the right column seem to be broken in current Google interface. Clicking on them has no effect. It seems like some kind of javascript failure, although no javascript errors are raised in console. If you open in new tab or open in new window, thus skipping the Google javascript -- it does work. Many of our users use Google Scholar and count on link resolver links working. This is awfully inconvenient. Anyone have any idea of any ways to report this to Google in such a way that they might actually care? Anyone got any internal contacts? Jonathan
Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?!
I just got word that Serials Solutions is advocating with Google to resolve it whatever that means. Maybe they have an actual contact there. -Michael __ Michael Braun Hamilton Public Services Librarian Hartness Library Community College of Vermont (802) 828-0125 michael.braunhamil...@ccv.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas Orphanides Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:31 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?! Maybe they've got the same plans for Google Scholar as they did for Reader and other much-adored Google products: to slowly crapify it until it becomes nearly useless, then retire it on short notice. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Sarah Lester sles...@stanford.edu wrote: Hi Jonathan, I found a place for feedback, but I don't know if that will get to the right folks at Google. Try: https://support.google.com/scholar/contact/general I just tried the using the FindIt@ links and they don't work for me either. Click and nothing happens. I also had to re-ad my library to the choices for the link resolver but they still don't work. Sarah On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Google Scholar has a feature where it will provide links to your local institutional OpenURL link resolver -- by user preference or IP address recognition. It will then present these links sometimes in a right column in Google Scholar results, other times in the row of links under each hit. The hyperlinks in the right column seem to be broken in current Google interface. Clicking on them has no effect. It seems like some kind of javascript failure, although no javascript errors are raised in console. If you open in new tab or open in new window, thus skipping the Google javascript -- it does work. Many of our users use Google Scholar and count on link resolver links working. This is awfully inconvenient. Anyone have any idea of any ways to report this to Google in such a way that they might actually care? Anyone got any internal contacts? Jonathan Privacy Confidentiality Notice: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, confidential or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of an email received in error is prohibited.
Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?!
Is it failing only with 360 Link, or with SFX, too? (We're 360 Link here.) -- Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor var...@umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum | 734-615-3287 On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Braun Hamilton, Michael R michael.braunhamil...@ccv.edu wrote: I just got word that Serials Solutions is advocating with Google to resolve it whatever that means. Maybe they have an actual contact there. -Michael __ Michael Braun Hamilton Public Services Librarian Hartness Library Community College of Vermont (802) 828-0125 michael.braunhamil...@ccv.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas Orphanides Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:31 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?! Maybe they've got the same plans for Google Scholar as they did for Reader and other much-adored Google products: to slowly crapify it until it becomes nearly useless, then retire it on short notice. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Sarah Lester sles...@stanford.edu wrote: Hi Jonathan, I found a place for feedback, but I don't know if that will get to the right folks at Google. Try: https://support.google.com/scholar/contact/general I just tried the using the FindIt@ links and they don't work for me either. Click and nothing happens. I also had to re-ad my library to the choices for the link resolver but they still don't work. Sarah On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Google Scholar has a feature where it will provide links to your local institutional OpenURL link resolver -- by user preference or IP address recognition. It will then present these links sometimes in a right column in Google Scholar results, other times in the row of links under each hit. The hyperlinks in the right column seem to be broken in current Google interface. Clicking on them has no effect. It seems like some kind of javascript failure, although no javascript errors are raised in console. If you open in new tab or open in new window, thus skipping the Google javascript -- it does work. Many of our users use Google Scholar and count on link resolver links working. This is awfully inconvenient. Anyone have any idea of any ways to report this to Google in such a way that they might actually care? Anyone got any internal contacts? Jonathan Privacy Confidentiality Notice: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, confidential or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of an email received in error is prohibited.
Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?!
It is failing with any link resolver at all. It doesn't matter where the link is going to, the link does not work. The more 'hidden' link that's presented for certain records underneath the hit still works. But the right-column link is not working -- probably because of a javascript bug of some kind, I'd say. It's got nothing to do with what link resolver you use. On 7/17/13 12:39 PM, Ken Varnum wrote: Is it failing only with 360 Link, or with SFX, too? (We're 360 Link here.) -- Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor var...@umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum | 734-615-3287 On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Braun Hamilton, Michael R michael.braunhamil...@ccv.edu wrote: I just got word that Serials Solutions is advocating with Google to resolve it whatever that means. Maybe they have an actual contact there. -Michael __ Michael Braun Hamilton Public Services Librarian Hartness Library Community College of Vermont (802) 828-0125 michael.braunhamil...@ccv.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas Orphanides Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:31 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?! Maybe they've got the same plans for Google Scholar as they did for Reader and other much-adored Google products: to slowly crapify it until it becomes nearly useless, then retire it on short notice. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Sarah Lester sles...@stanford.edu wrote: Hi Jonathan, I found a place for feedback, but I don't know if that will get to the right folks at Google. Try: https://support.google.com/scholar/contact/general I just tried the using the FindIt@ links and they don't work for me either. Click and nothing happens. I also had to re-ad my library to the choices for the link resolver but they still don't work. Sarah On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Google Scholar has a feature where it will provide links to your local institutional OpenURL link resolver -- by user preference or IP address recognition. It will then present these links sometimes in a right column in Google Scholar results, other times in the row of links under each hit. The hyperlinks in the right column seem to be broken in current Google interface. Clicking on them has no effect. It seems like some kind of javascript failure, although no javascript errors are raised in console. If you open in new tab or open in new window, thus skipping the Google javascript -- it does work. Many of our users use Google Scholar and count on link resolver links working. This is awfully inconvenient. Anyone have any idea of any ways to report this to Google in such a way that they might actually care? Anyone got any internal contacts? Jonathan Privacy Confidentiality Notice: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, confidential or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of an email received in error is prohibited.
Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?!
We tested it here and it seems to be working fine. Our link resolver is Ebsco's Linksource Jason On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.eduwrote: It is failing with any link resolver at all. It doesn't matter where the link is going to, the link does not work. The more 'hidden' link that's presented for certain records underneath the hit still works. But the right-column link is not working -- probably because of a javascript bug of some kind, I'd say. It's got nothing to do with what link resolver you use. On 7/17/13 12:39 PM, Ken Varnum wrote: Is it failing only with 360 Link, or with SFX, too? (We're 360 Link here.) -- Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor var...@umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/**users/varnumhttp://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum| 734-615-3287 On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Braun Hamilton, Michael R michael.braunhamil...@ccv.edu wrote: I just got word that Serials Solutions is advocating with Google to resolve it whatever that means. Maybe they have an actual contact there. -Michael __ Michael Braun Hamilton Public Services Librarian Hartness Library Community College of Vermont (802) 828-0125 michael.braunhamil...@ccv.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.**eduCODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas Orphanides Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:31 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?! Maybe they've got the same plans for Google Scholar as they did for Reader and other much-adored Google products: to slowly crapify it until it becomes nearly useless, then retire it on short notice. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Sarah Lester sles...@stanford.edu wrote: Hi Jonathan, I found a place for feedback, but I don't know if that will get to the right folks at Google. Try: https://support.google.com/**scholar/contact/generalhttps://support.google.com/scholar/contact/general I just tried the using the FindIt@ links and they don't work for me either. Click and nothing happens. I also had to re-ad my library to the choices for the link resolver but they still don't work. Sarah On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Google Scholar has a feature where it will provide links to your local institutional OpenURL link resolver -- by user preference or IP address recognition. It will then present these links sometimes in a right column in Google Scholar results, other times in the row of links under each hit. The hyperlinks in the right column seem to be broken in current Google interface. Clicking on them has no effect. It seems like some kind of javascript failure, although no javascript errors are raised in console. If you open in new tab or open in new window, thus skipping the Google javascript -- it does work. Many of our users use Google Scholar and count on link resolver links working. This is awfully inconvenient. Anyone have any idea of any ways to report this to Google in such a way that they might actually care? Anyone got any internal contacts? Jonathan Privacy Confidentiality Notice: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, confidential or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of an email received in error is prohibited. -- Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 miche...@muohio.edu @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel
Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?!
The right hand links are now working for us as well (360 Link). They were not working an hour ago, so I'm assuming that Google either has it resolved or is working on a resolution. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Michel, Jason miche...@miamioh.edu wrote: We tested it here and it seems to be working fine. Our link resolver is Ebsco's Linksource Jason On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.eduwrote: It is failing with any link resolver at all. It doesn't matter where the link is going to, the link does not work. The more 'hidden' link that's presented for certain records underneath the hit still works. But the right-column link is not working -- probably because of a javascript bug of some kind, I'd say. It's got nothing to do with what link resolver you use. On 7/17/13 12:39 PM, Ken Varnum wrote: Is it failing only with 360 Link, or with SFX, too? (We're 360 Link here.) -- Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor var...@umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/**users/varnumhttp://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum| 734-615-3287 On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Braun Hamilton, Michael R michael.braunhamil...@ccv.edu wrote: I just got word that Serials Solutions is advocating with Google to resolve it whatever that means. Maybe they have an actual contact there. -Michael __ Michael Braun Hamilton Public Services Librarian Hartness Library Community College of Vermont (802) 828-0125 michael.braunhamil...@ccv.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.**eduCODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Andreas Orphanides Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:31 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?! Maybe they've got the same plans for Google Scholar as they did for Reader and other much-adored Google products: to slowly crapify it until it becomes nearly useless, then retire it on short notice. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Sarah Lester sles...@stanford.edu wrote: Hi Jonathan, I found a place for feedback, but I don't know if that will get to the right folks at Google. Try: https://support.google.com/**scholar/contact/generalhttps://support.google.com/scholar/contact/general I just tried the using the FindIt@ links and they don't work for me either. Click and nothing happens. I also had to re-ad my library to the choices for the link resolver but they still don't work. Sarah On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Google Scholar has a feature where it will provide links to your local institutional OpenURL link resolver -- by user preference or IP address recognition. It will then present these links sometimes in a right column in Google Scholar results, other times in the row of links under each hit. The hyperlinks in the right column seem to be broken in current Google interface. Clicking on them has no effect. It seems like some kind of javascript failure, although no javascript errors are raised in console. If you open in new tab or open in new window, thus skipping the Google javascript -- it does work. Many of our users use Google Scholar and count on link resolver links working. This is awfully inconvenient. Anyone have any idea of any ways to report this to Google in such a way that they might actually care? Anyone got any internal contacts? Jonathan Privacy Confidentiality Notice: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, confidential or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of an email received in error is prohibited. -- Jason Paul Michel User Experience Librarian Miami University Libraries 513.529.3935 miche...@muohio.edu @jpmichel https://twitter.com/jpmichel
Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?!
And it is now fixed. I didn't do anything, other people were on it. :) On 7/17/13 12:16 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Google Scholar has a feature where it will provide links to your local institutional OpenURL link resolver -- by user preference or IP address recognition. It will then present these links sometimes in a right column in Google Scholar results, other times in the row of links under each hit. The hyperlinks in the right column seem to be broken in current Google interface. Clicking on them has no effect. It seems like some kind of javascript failure, although no javascript errors are raised in console. If you open in new tab or open in new window, thus skipping the Google javascript -- it does work. Many of our users use Google Scholar and count on link resolver links working. This is awfully inconvenient. Anyone have any idea of any ways to report this to Google in such a way that they might actually care? Anyone got any internal contacts? Jonathan
