Global searches go to local libraries
Posted by Christian DiCarlo, Content
Partnerships Team, Google Scholar
Recently I’ve been working with libraries on something we’re
excited to announce for Google Scholar users. Libraries are
fantastic repositories of scholarship, and we want to make them as
visible and accessible as possible. We’ve just expanded our Library
Search program in Google
Scholar to help people around the world find works of their
interest in local libraries. That program now includes links to
libraries in Hungary,
href="http://www.gegnir.is" >Iceland,
href="http://libnet1.ac.il/~libnet/uli/" >Israel,
href="http://opac.porbase.org" >Portugal,
href="http://websok.libris.kb.se/websearch/form?lang=sve" >Sweden,
and Switzerland.
If for example you're a student in Sweden searching Google
Scholar for
href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chemistry" >[chemistry],
you can click the “Library Search (Sweden)” link underneath the
book titled "Principles of polymer chemistry" to see the
list of Swedish libraries that hold the book. Then just pay a visit
to one of those libraries to reserve it. If you’re outside Sweden,
you can activate the Swedish library catalog links from the
"Library Links" box in the "Scholar
preferences" by searching for Sweden.
If you are a library patron and can't find the books from your
library, ask your local library to participate in this program. If
you are a librarian and would like to work with us to help users
find scholarly literature in your library, please
href="mailto:scholar-library@google.com" >contact us.
We'd like to thank our union catalog partners for helping to
make this happen. Here's hoping researchers worldwide will use
it to find and build on the amazing collections in the world's
libraries.
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