Google Blog: Library access

Google Blog: Library access

"...now becoming a reality: most academic libraries these days subscribe to electronic versions of journals that authorized patrons can read on their own computers. And today we're launching a feature in Google Scholar that lets people read their academic library's subscriptions directly from their Google Scholar search results. Students at more than 100 participating universities will see links to such library resources as electronic delivery, print catalogs, and interlibrary loan..."


Our access is through Pipeline, which is available anywhere the internet can be turned on. Still, I find multiple ways of accessing database subscriptions intriguing. And I'm investigating some "federated searching" tools which would search across all our databases and our catalog and present results on one page. And isn't that what Google does? (It just can't get into OUR databases... unless we become one of their 'participating' institutions.)