FWIW, this is what we do as well... for the few people who think "I want 
to use Google Scholar, I'll go to the UNC Library website."  Still, folks 
have learned that to get easy access (after that first hoop) it's worth 
it.

-t

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Tim Shearer

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The University Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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On Wed, 15 Jul 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.
>
> At first it seemed like a crazy idea, but then the thought was that users are 
> using Google Scholar as an extension of our website if they click on our 
> link.
>
> Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>> When I've experimented with this, I haven't been able to figure out a way 
>> to set my institution in their preferences, without _removing_ any existing 
>> institutions they may have already chosen.  I don't want to over-write 
>> their existing preferences, if any, I just want to add my institution to 
>> them!
>> 
>> If anyone figures out a way to do this, I'm interested too.
>> 
>> I actually didn't know about the &inst=X feature allowing you to set the 
>> institution even just for the current session, that's awfully helpful and 
>> better than nothing, thanks!
>> 
>> Jonathan
>> 
>> 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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