Finding and Getting: Google Books, Google Scholar, and Free OpenURL Browser Tools Melissa Belvadi January, 2009 OLA 2009 SuperConference
Overview Defining the problem Google Book Search (GBS) Google Scholar (GS) Openly OpenURL Referrer COinS LibX Toolbar Final Thoughts
OpenURL Review Licensed Citation Index OpenURL Resolver (your holdings) Full Text Link Catalogue Holdings ILL Request ? Public Internet
Google Book Search (GBS) Over 7 million books searchable OCRd keyword indexing to entire full text Full text available only if out of copyright
GBS – Possible Text Views
GBS – Full View
GBS – Limited Preview
GBS – Snippets
GBS – No preview
GBS Searching intitle:canada inauthor:macdonald date: subject:history very broad Google categories, not very useful Science, History, Nature, Travel, Business & Economics, etc. Boolean - work; OR, NOT do not Wildcard * as in regular Google (in phrases)
GBS – Linking Out
GBS - Linking to WorldCat
GBS – WorldCat to Catalogue
GBS and WorldCat – on-campus
WorldCat Registry
Google Scholar (GS)
GS - Searching author:macdonald intitle:prince edward island Boolean: supports OR, - (not), phrases must use Advanced search for date range
GS - Searching Note use of intitle: in general box
GS - Searching
GS - Linking
GS – Library Links Program
GS – Link to OpenURL
GS – Library Links 2
GBS vs GS vs Google Result ranking Linking to libraries
Web Browser Plugins What is a plugin? Plugin vs bookmarklet
Openly OpenURL Referrer (OOUR)
OOUR – FireFox plugin
GS and OOUR
COinS Context Object in Span Context Object = citation, e.g. to a book or article Span = HTML tag COinS = A way to embed a citation in OpenURL format into a web page
COinS - in the raw HTML COinS Generator
COinS-Supporting Sites Worldcat.org – convenient for GBS Wikipedia Open Library Hubmed.org (alternative interface to PubMed) Many smaller sites, e.g. UPEI's institutional repository AKA Embedding Sites
COinS and UPEI's IR
COinS-Using Software/Sites Openly OpenURL Referrer Plugin LibX toolbar system Zotero OpenBook plugin for WordPress AKA Activating agent
Worldcat and OOUR
OOUR and Wikipedia
LibX Toolbar Toolbar with Plugin Functionality, COinS support
LibX and Google Scholar
LibX and Google Books
LibX and Wikipedia - COinS
LibX and other sites Sage Pubs Amazon
LibX – DOI, PMID
Final Thoughts Is this crazy?
Useful Links Google Books, Scholar LibX Openly OpenURL Referrer COINS span code generator DOI WorldCat Registry Questions?