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
Full Text Link
OpenURL
Resolver
(your holdings)
Catalogue
Holdings
ILL Request
?
Public Internet
Google Book Search (GBS)
Over 7 million books searchable
OCR’d 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: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
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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%3Ajourn
al
&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
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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
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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
Amazon
Sage
Pubs
LibX – DOI, PMID
Final Thoughts
Is this crazy?
Useful Links
Google Books, Scholar
http://books.google.com
http://scholar.google.com
LibX
http://www.libx.org
Openly OpenURL Referrer
http://www.openly.com/openurlref/
COINS span code generator
http://generator.ocoins.info/
DOI
http://www.doi.org
http://www.crossref.org/
WorldCat Registry
http://www.worldcat.org/registry/
Questions?