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    Include e-books in Google Scholar Export

    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Primo
    • Product Version: 4

    Desired Outcome Goal:
    Include e-books (monographs) in scheduled Google Scholar export

    Procedure:
    1) Edit crontab as instance user:
    crontab -e
    2) Add --object_type=BOOK option after --object_type=JOURNAL in the Google Scholar cron statement

    Additional Information

    * Example of Google Scholar cron with both serials (e-journals) and monographs (e-books):
    30 07 * * 03 /exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/<instance>/admin/kbtools/export.cron --mode=manual --format=GOOGLE --original_title_format=both --object_type=JOURNAL --object_type=BOOK --service=getFullTxt --compress
    * This export can also be used by Primo Central for determining availability of Primo Central results in Primo

    Category: Source issues (SFX)

    Subject: (SFX)


    • Article last edited: 12/18/2013