Is it failing only with 360 Link, or with SFX, too? (We're 360 Link here.)


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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Braun Hamilton, Michael R <
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> I just got word that Serials Solutions is "advocating with Google to
> resolve it" whatever that means. Maybe they have an actual contact there.
>
> -Michael
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> Michael Braun Hamilton
> Public Services Librarian
> Hartness Library Community College of Vermont
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Andreas Orphanides
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 12:31 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] google scholar link resolver links broken?!
>
> 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
> >
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