On approaches to Bridging the Gap in access to licensed resources | Bibliographic Wilderness

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-05-20

Summary:

" ... The primary issue I’m interested in there: Getting our patrons from a paywalled scholarly citation on the open unauthenticated web, to an authenticated library-licensed copy, or other library services ... In late April Google released a browser plugin for Chrome and Firefox called the 'Google Scholar Button'.  This plugin will extract the title of an article from a page (either text you’ve selected on the page first, or it will try to scrape a title from HTML markup), and give you search results for that article title from Google Scholar, in a little popup window ... The Google Scholar Button is basically trying to bridge the same gap we are; it provides a condensed version of google scholar search results, with a link to an open access PDF if Google knows about one (I am still curious how many of these open access PDF’s are not-entirely-licensed copies put up by authors or professors without publisher permissions);  And it in some cases provides an OpenURL link to a library link resolver, which is just what we’re looking for ... Instead of trying to take a title and find a hit in a mega-corpus of scholarly citations  like the Google Scholar Button approach, another approach would be to try to extract the full citation details from the source page, and construct an OpenURL to send straight to our landing page.  And, hey, it has occurred to me, there’s some software that already can scrape citation data elements from quite a long list of web sites our patrons might want to start from.  Zotero. (And Mendeley too for that matter).  In fact, you could use Zotero as a method of ‘Bridging the Gap’ right now. Sign up for a Zotero account, install the Zotero extension. When you are on a paywalled citation page on the unauthenticated open web (or a search results page on Google Scholar, Amazon, or other places Zotero can scrape from), first import your citation into Zotero. Then go into your Zotero library, find the citation, and — if you’ve properly set up your OpenURL preferences in Zotero — it’ll give you a link to click on that will take you to your institutional OpenURL resolver. In our case, our Umlaut landing page ..."

Link:

https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/on-approaches-to-bridging-the-gap-in-access-to-licensed-resources/

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oa.new oa.comment oa.tools oa.google_scholar oa.zotero oa.libraries oa.citations oa.librarians

Date tagged:

05/20/2015, 08:31

Date published:

05/20/2015, 04:31