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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 ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~ Robert E. Duncan Systems Librarian Editor of IT Communications Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 [log in to unmask] http://library.lafayette.edu/