That's my recollection as well.

On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Godmar Back wrote:

> It used to be you could just GET the corresponding form, e.g.:
>
> http://scholar.google.com/scholar_setprefs?num=10&instq=&inst=sfx-f7e167eec5dde9063b5a8770ec3aaba7&q=einstein&inststart=0&submit=Save+Preferences
>
> - Godmar
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Stuart  
> Yeates<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> It's possible to send users to google scholar using URLs such as:
>>
>> http://scholar.google.co.nz/schhp?hl=en&inst=8862113006238551395
>>
>> where the institution is obtained using the standard preference  
>> setting mechanism. Has anyone found a way of persisting this  
>> setting in the users browser, so when they start a new session this  
>> is the default?
>>
>> Yes, I know they can go "Scholar Preferences" -> "Save" to persist  
>> it, but I'm looking for a more automated way of doing it...
>>
>> cheers
>> stuart
>>

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