Finding and Getting: Google Books,

Google Scholar, and

Free OpenURL Browser Tools

Melissa BelvadiJanuary, 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

LicensedCitation Index

OpenURLResolver

(your holdings)

Full Text Link

Catalogue Holdings

ILL Request

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Public Internet

Google Book Search (GBS)Over 7 million books searchable

OCR’d keyword indexing to entire full textFull 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:1940-2008•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 – 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 - 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 <span></span>

COinS = A way to embed a citation in OpenURL format into a web page

COinS - in the raw HTML<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Sickle+cell+anaemia+and+severe+infections+             due+to+encapsulated+bacteria&rft.jtitle=J+Infect+Dis&rft.volume=136+Suppl&rft.au=Pearson+H&rft.pages=S25-30&rft_id=info:pmid/330779"></span> COinS Generator

http://generator.ocoins.info/

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 www.libx.org

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 LinksGoogle Books, Scholarhttp://books.google.com http://scholar.google.com

LibXhttp://www.libx.org

Openly OpenURL Referrerhttp://www.openly.com/openurlref/

COINS span code generatorhttp://generator.ocoins.info/

DOIhttp://www.doi.orghttp://www.crossref.org/

WorldCat Registryhttp://www.worldcat.org/registry/

Questions?