 |
 |
Maybe they've got the same plans for Google Scholar as they did for Reader and other much-adored Google products: to slowly crapify it until it becomes nearly useless, then retire it on short notice. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Sarah Lester <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > I found a place for feedback, but I don't know if that will get to the > right folks at Google. Try: > https://support.google.com/scholar/contact/general > > I just tried the using the FindIt@ links and they don't work for me > either. Click and nothing happens. I also had to re-ad my library to the > choices for the link resolver but they still don't work. > > Sarah > > On Jul 17, 2013, at 9:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > > > Google Scholar has a feature where it will provide links to your local > institutional OpenURL link resolver -- by user preference or IP address > recognition. > > > > It will then present these links sometimes in a right column in Google > Scholar results, other times in the row of links under each hit. > > > > The hyperlinks in the right column seem to be broken in current Google > interface. Clicking on them has no effect. It seems like some kind of > javascript failure, although no javascript errors are raised in console. > > > > If you "open in new tab" or "open in new window", thus skipping the > Google javascript -- it does work. > > > > Many of our users use Google Scholar and count on link resolver links > working. This is awfully inconvenient. > > > > Anyone have any idea of any ways to report this to Google in such a way > that they might actually care? Anyone got any internal contacts? > > > > Jonathan >