Re: Setting users google scholar settings

From: Godmar Back <godmar_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:15:14 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
It used to be you could just GET the corresponding form, e.g.:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_setprefs?num=10&instq=&inst=sfx-f7e167eec5dde9063b5a8770ec3aaba7&q=einstein&inststart=0&submit=Save+Preferences

 - Godmar

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Stuart Yeates<stuart.yeates_at_vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> It's possible to send users to google scholar using URLs such as:
>
> http://scholar.google.co.nz/schhp?hl=en&inst=8862113006238551395
>
> where the institution is obtained using the standard preference setting mechanism. Has anyone found a way of persisting this setting in the users browser, so when they start a new session this is the default?
>
> Yes, I know they can go "Scholar Preferences" -> "Save" to persist it, but I'm looking for a more automated way of doing it...
>
> cheers
> stuart
>
Received on Wed Jul 15 2009 - 07:15:43 EDT