Bob,

Thats good to know.  That's an angle we hadn't considered testing, 
however if the user has identified a preference, I think that it would 
be good that Google honors that preference rather than allowing me(a 3rd 
party as far as Google is concerned) to overwrite those preferences by 
my well meaning interference.  I realize there are some simplistic 
assumptions in that statement, but I hope that any preferences set by 
the user would lead them to legitimate access points even if those 
access points happen not to be our subscriptions.

Bob Duncan wrote:
> At 03:25 PM 7/15/2009, John Wynstra wrote:
>> We have tested routing off-campus users through our local proxy (WAM) 
>> when they link to Google Scholar from our library website .  Not 
>> recommending it, just saying it works since the proxy is in the 
>> correct IP range.  It has the benefit of leaving folks authenticated 
>> to the documents they will eventually click to--assuming you are using 
>> a rewrite proxy.  It doesn't actually set preferences, so if users 
>> happen to go directly to Google Scholar they may be confused by the 
>> missing openURL links.
> 
> 
> I was going to mention this as well, but I was home this morning and did 
> some experimenting, and found that if I had already set a Library Links 
> preference in Scholar, that my proxied URL strategy was foiled.  To 
> test...I accessed Scholar directly, set Stanford in Scholar Prefs, 
> closed the browser, then accessed Scholar using a proxied URL.  Instead 
> of my library's OpenURL links, I still saw just Stanford's.  I opened a 
> different browser, accessed Scholar using the proxied URL, and saw 
> Lafayette's OpenURL links.
> 
> Seems like as long as the browser has stated a conscious preference from 
> within Scholar Preferences, IP address is ignored for purposes of 
> offering OpenURL links.  (Even from on-campus -- Scholar sets a 
> preference based on IP address, but if you delete your institution from 
> the prefs, it won't come back until you add it back or delete the 
> Scholar cookie.)
> 
> Bob Duncan
> 
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