Philip,
I would agree entirely that we would not want to get into loading holdings
onto a vendor's system. We would not want the workload, and I am not sure
about the desirability of giving some commercial organisation what is
potentially useful market info about our subscriptions.

We have not looked into what is required for 'literature linking' on Google
Scholar, so interested in comments from others. However, we did experiment
a little with using Firefox and some of the functionality in there to link
through from Google Scholar, to our own subs, and it worked rather nicely
on individual staff machines.  However, it is not an option for us, at
least at the moment, as our campus wide browser is internet explorer. But I
have seen a number of messages from US, indicating that others have been
considering using Firefox instead. Has anyone else tried out the Firefox
functionality? (I'll look for the email/instructions I picked up on this).
Jane 

--On 28 June 2005, 10:11 -0400 "Ruston, Phillip"
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> Dear All,
> 
> We've been investigating literature linking on Google Scholar. We've
> decided against enabling this functionality for our users at the current
> time.
> 
> Our view on linking is that a single resolver used by multiple
> applications is the most efficient direction to go; Google Scholar
> linking falls in with this view, but we also want to avoid uploading any
> holdings information to any vendor/system. The impact of doing this means
> that we are maintaining information in multiple places. In this context,
> even an automated method is not desirable (at least, not for us!). In
> addition, for those organisations that integrate linking with document
> delivery, the Google Scholar approach removes the ability to easily order
> documents that aren't licensed by the organisation.
> 
> I'm interested in what the view of the wider community has to say with
> regard to linking and Google Scholar - particularly around the requirement
> to supply holdings information. Any comments?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Phillip
> 
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