1) The advent of Google Scholar may jumpstart scholars into cooperating with the open access repository movement, but that is speculation at this point. So librarians study use data, correlate use to price, and cut every journal that is not essential, while publishers labor over complicated pricing models looking for a way to maintain revenue in a struggling market. More….LJ April 15th
2) “I don’t think [Google Scholar] will compete with traditional A&I databases that are done well, but would definitely compete with any providers that are searching the open web,” observed John McDonald, acquisitions librarian at Caltech. Among the link resolvers involved are SFX by Ex Libris, Article Linker by Serials Solutions, and 1Cate by Openly Informatics. “We would like to work with everybody,” said Anurag Acharya, the principal engineer behind Google Scholar. The pilot is expanding: Serials Solutions in March invited some 200 of its Article Linker clients to join the experiment. More…at Library Journal.