How We Fixed Google Scholar
Google Scholar is an amazing search tool. Until it breaks. Google harvested an incredible amount of article metadata & abstracts to power Scholar, and it does an impressive job of linking to freely available copies of articles whenever possible. Unfortunately, … Read more
Building a Google Scholar search form with links to full text
Google Scholar provides options to associate your account with a library’s access to full text articles. After you set the option, every search result will include a proxied link to the full text when available: Configuring this option has to … Read more
On-the-fly Usability Testing Findings
Back in March, the UX Department had the pleasure of attending an ASERL webinar about on-the-fly usability testing lead by our Duke University Libraries colleague, Emily Daly. In her talk, Emily describes a method for doing quick usability testing on … Read more