April 30, 2006
RefWorks from Google Scholar
As a precursor to a review of Microsoft Live Academic Search, I thought I'd better just have a quick look at Google Scholar to remind myself of what it offered, and noticed this feature on the Scholar Preferences page:
(As well as RefWorks, BibTeX, EndNote and RefMan are also supported.)
Why's this interesting? Well, RefWorks is offered as a service to OU students via the OU Library (OU/RefWorks).
Once you have set the reference export preference, an additional link is offered for each search result allowing you to imoport the reference directly into RefWorks:
Or should that be almost directly? I hadn't logged in to RefWorks for someitme, didn't have my password, couldn't get RefWorks to mail me a new one (or perhaps it did and email is taking an hour or two to get thrpugh tonight), eventually found my original RefWorks login info email, still couldn't work how to get in (perhaps it was in the Library documentation?), tried as a last resort to go in the group way, and Bingo!:
I have to go in via the OU group...
Anyway - once that hurdle was negotiated (my live OU SAMS authentication ticket seemed to automatically log me in to my personal RefWorks account) the reference was imported very easily:
Once in my reference list, my RefWorks account seems set up to try and provide seemless access to an electronic copy of each reference via the OU OpenURL link resolver:
It is possible to get an OpenURL linkresolver link embedded directly in the Google Scholar results page using a Greaseminkey script or suitable toolbar, of course, but that's the subject of another post...
Posted by ajh59 at April 30, 2006 10:33 PM