Category: Linking

I too have been following the discussion on the SFX support list Peter mentions, and have been hoping he or someone of his calibre would blog about it, making it easier to summarize and include here.  I didn’t do a count on the opinions, but I sense that many on the aforementioned list are leaning…

Back last November when Google Scholar appeared, I wrote up a little piece about how it needed to work for the distance student, and others agreed. Fast forward a few months, and holy cow, take a look at what Ross Singer at the Georgia Institute of Techology has built: WAG the Dog Web Localizer.  Wow! …

I’ve been doing some thinking about Google Scholar since the U of C became a participant in the beta institutional access preferences option.  My institution uses SFX as its link resolver, and one of the biggest problems has always been getting students to understand that just because there’s an SFX button after a citation in…

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…