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Google gets OpenURL links. Academics force Google Scholar to adopt Link Resolvers, reports Mark Chillingworth.
Google has adopted OpenURL technology for its Google Scholar initiative, after academic information professionals expressed fears that students using the search engine will be unable to discover the resources available from their institutes.
"Google Scholar needs OpenURL in order to link users to the appropriate copy - a subscription-paid article - rather than the publisher's home page," said Ex Libris marketing vice president Jenny Walker of the initial weaknesses in Scholar.
Library automation (LA) applications from Ex Libris, Serials Solutions and Openly Informatics now provide OpenURL Link Resolving tools to Scholar, following successful lobbying from vendors and universities. Google has confirmed that institutional collections will feature prominently within the search results.
Although Google Scholar surprised the information industry, Google itself is said to have been startled by the sector's complexities. "The library world is saturated with metadata, and, so far, Google has been able to dodge this," said JR Jenkins, product manager at Serial Solutions, adding that if Google is to be successful as an ...
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