Hey, Google implemented my idea to allow students to indicate an affiliation with an academic institution! No, there’s been no acknowledgment from them, and yeah, I suppose it’s possible they thought of this all by themselves, but I’d like to think otherwise 🙂 I just emailed them to see if they’d put the U of Calgary up there – I’ll let you know if they respond.
Is your school providing access to Scholar through a link resolver? Make sure you get on Scholar Preferences list. I’m not sure this list will scale very well, but I reckon they’ll work out a better mechanism for finding your school if you’re a student/faculty/staff person. (Thanks Brad!)
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Google Scholar and RedLightGreen need a sandbox
There’s been much buzz in the past couple of days about Google Scholar’s Scholar Preferences, which provides support for Institutional Access. Probably a hundred or more librarians (like myself) have already bombarded Google Scholar with emails to have…