Article Linker Adds Google

Edited By Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 9/15/2005

Serials Solutions has adopted Google Scholar as an OpenURL-enabled source for its Article Linker hosted link resolver product. According to the company, "working in close collaboration with the Google Scholar team, Article Linker has enabled more than 100 libraries to link from Google Scholar to full-text content within their collections." To work with Google, Serials Solutions has built proprietary activation and data transfer tools "to streamline the process and ensure quality linking." Existing Serials Solutions customers can activate the Google Scholar option through the vendor's Client Center. A custom XML file, which is maintained by Serials Solutions at no cost to customers, enables Google to highlight links if the library has the full-text article in its collection.