tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33596609.post1360540815981932..comments2024-03-17T14:11:23.145-05:00Comments on Digital Eccentric: new york times open accessLeslie Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02214388320207490977noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33596609.post-64252859498916093442007-09-20T09:09:00.000-05:002007-09-20T09:09:00.000-05:00Glad you mentioned the technological possibility o...Glad you mentioned the technological possibility of OpenURL here. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, I don't hold out much hope that Google will add it to News, if they haven't by now. <BR/><BR/>While there are some technical issues in making OpenURL work usefully here, if it was in Google's interests to do so, they aren't so great that something useful couldn't be done. But I guess Google wouldnt' get much out of it--and it may even hurt their interests, to the extent they might have deals with (or just want to keep happy) the content providers that want to sell this content to users, rather than have users realize it's already licensed for them by their library. <BR/><BR/>There may be some promise in a Greasemonkey/LibX type solution that doesn't require Google's participation--but does require the user to be using Firefox, and to install a custom plugin.Jonathan Rochkindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05438603607671783114noreply@blogger.com