Family Man Librarian

Google Scholar recently began what it describes as a “small pilot project” with a number of libraries, to link Google Scholar search results through their OpenURL services. See Google Scholar Preferences for a complete list of current libraries participating in the project.

It took me only a few minutes to achieve much the same thing for my institution, thanks to the work of Peter Binkley at the University of Alberta and the folks at Openly Informatics. Students and faculty at Taylor who use the Firefox web browser (and in my opinion, more of them should be using Firefox) can add in an extension that will make Google Scholar results link directly through the “Get It! @ Taylor” OpenURL service that I set up.