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It is now possible for anyone from the Carnegie Mellon community to link out from Google Scholar to the library's fulltext resources, Cameo, and Illiad. To enable this, go to Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/, and click Preferences. Use Find Institution to bring up Carnegie Mellon (if you are doing this from one of our IP addresses, it should show up automatically). Check the box, then Save your choice.

Subsequently, when you do a search and retrieve results, the link Carnegie Mellon Fulltext appears to the right of the article title where linking out is available to fulltext. Where linking out to Cameo, WorldCat and Illiad is available, the link appears lower in each item and is called Carnegie Mellon Links.

Linking works pretty well for scholarly articles, books and similar items, giving users one nice way to get back to what we make available for them. Not everything that turns up in Google Scholar, however, has a well-structured OpenURL to link to our library holdings and fulltext, so you won't see the Carnegie Mellon Fulltext or Carnegie Mellon Links for every single result in Google Scholar.

Also, since our licensed databases are IP-authenticated, when a user is working off-campus, the best way to take advantage of seemless outbound linking to our resources is to sign in through the WebVPN first http://www.vpn.cmu.edu, then go to Google Scholar.