New blog I found
New blog I found
I found a neat new blog this week entitled “Making Links“.
According to the about page, “Making Links is a website created in
September 2004 to share information and to support librarians within
the OCUL consortium who are adapting their library services to two technologies new to OCUL: SFX and Refworks“.
While SUNY Cortland isn't a member of this consortia, the blog has some
great information about SFX and ideas about using OpenURL resolvers in
general. There are some great ideas here about integrating OpenURL
resolvers with other types of software such as citation management
tools, webloging, and learning management systems. It is worth checking
out if you are new to playing with your OpenURL resolver and wonder
what exactly it is good for. I was asked something similar to this
recently by a collegue at a conference. The colleague wanted to know
what the importance of an OpenURL resolver was if their clientele was
used to looking at specific journals rather than searching databases. I
wish I knew about this site then so I could have referred him to it.
There are things here I neglected to mention in my list of OpenURL
resolver benefits.