finding and getting: google books, google scholar, and free openurl browser tools melissa belvadi...
TRANSCRIPT
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
?
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?