We have it configured to go through our proxy. The trick is getting users to use that link on our library website--that is the one that will authenticate them when they are outside of the library, after they provide their university log in credentials.

Students seem to be getting the hang of going through the library website to access Google Scholar because we push it during instruction; faculty often do not, despite instruction.  :-/  

 

Beth

Beth M. Johns, MLIS
Electronic Resources & Reference Librarian
Melvin J. Zahnow Library
Saginaw Valley State University
989-964-2158
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From: "Buddy D. Pennington" <penningtonb@UMKC.EDU>
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 1:48:22 PM
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] EBSCO Link Source and Google Scholar

I don't remember it taking that long. But I do have a related question. We are not seeing the "Preferences" link in Google Scholar that allows off-campus users to select their institution to take advantage of this functionality. Anybody know if this was a recent change?

Buddy Pennington
Director of Collections and Access Management
University of Missouri - Kansas City
816-235-1548

UMKC Libraries: Discovery. Knowledge. Empowerment.

"The central purpose of libraries is to provide a service: access to information." - Michael Buckland


-----Original Message-----
From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Edward Keane
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 12:04 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] EBSCO Link Source and Google Scholar

Hi everyone,

I am wondering if anyone has had the experience of waiting an an undue amount of time for Google Scholar to be configured to work with LinkSource?

My recollection from several years ago is that it took about a week or two for Serials Solutions to configure Google Scholar to work with their product.

I have no other complaints about LinkSource, so far it seems to do what it's supposed to and is relatively easy to work with, but our institution notified EBSCO in August that we wanted Google Scholar to work with LinkSource and in my opinion it shouldn't take more than a month for this to get done.  But perhaps I am being unreasonable or my memory isn't serving me well regarding our Serials Solutions experience.

Can anyone involved with the purchase ofLinkSource share their experiences regarding this issue.

Thanks, Ed


Edward Keane
Reference/Instruction
Electronic Resources Librarian
Long Island University
Brooklyn Campus
ekeane@liu.edu