06-27-2019, 02:31 PM
The Google Scholar - Library Links - ProQuest Full Text option for your college is currently the only live option. This is not coming from Alma; it is completely separate and controlled from the ProQuest Admin module. I enabled this soon after go-live because the old Google Scholar VCCS-LincIT URL stopped working when Alma replaced SFX. The standalone ProQuest option, although it is limited to ProQuest databases, is a reliable temporary way to maintain some visibility and access point in Google Scholar while we addressed the various problems with electronic resources migration from Aleph/SFX to Alma.
Now that electronic resources in Alma are stabilized for the most part, I have test publishing runs to Google Scholar active in the Tidewater and Germanna instances. This test job schedule begins 6/29/2019:
Saturdays 0100 - Publish NZ electronic records to Google Scholar. When publishing to Google Scholar in a collaborative network, the export process must be run at the VCCS Network Zone the day before it is run at each member institution.
Sundays at 0100 - Publish IZ electronic records to Google Scholar (just TCC/GCC for now).
Of course once the Alma publishing jobs run, complete harvesting/processing by Google takes at least a week, then more time to appear in Google Scholar results in order to test. I will update when there is something for TCC and GCC to test in Google Scholar (most likely after 7/14). Once we determine that this works, we will enable the jobs for all colleges and deactivate the ProQuest 'library link' for those who no longer want it.
-Tara
Now that electronic resources in Alma are stabilized for the most part, I have test publishing runs to Google Scholar active in the Tidewater and Germanna instances. This test job schedule begins 6/29/2019:
Saturdays 0100 - Publish NZ electronic records to Google Scholar. When publishing to Google Scholar in a collaborative network, the export process must be run at the VCCS Network Zone the day before it is run at each member institution.
Sundays at 0100 - Publish IZ electronic records to Google Scholar (just TCC/GCC for now).
Of course once the Alma publishing jobs run, complete harvesting/processing by Google takes at least a week, then more time to appear in Google Scholar results in order to test. I will update when there is something for TCC and GCC to test in Google Scholar (most likely after 7/14). Once we determine that this works, we will enable the jobs for all colleges and deactivate the ProQuest 'library link' for those who no longer want it.
-Tara
Tara Cassidy
Director of Library Services
Virginia's Community Colleges - System Office
Director of Library Services
Virginia's Community Colleges - System Office