Posted in Library Systems, OpenURL on Feb 4th, 2006 No Comments »
Since Midwinter I’ve been thinking about a bunch of different ideas of how we can improved the web services we provide to our users. Many of the things I’ve been thinking about involve making it easier for library users to repurpose the content that libraries provide access to. It isn’t easy for people to find [...]
Posted in OpenURL, Usability on Jun 16th, 2005 1 Comment »
Today was an interesting day dealing with an issue we have been having with the Gale Group OneFile database. Apparently, OpenURL linking via SFX will only work properly if you are using Internet Explorer for a web browser. It took me two days to discover that this was the issue because (silly me) I assumed [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, OpenURL on Jun 15th, 2005 No Comments »
I got some really good comments in response to my post about Google Scholar and OpenURL resolvers. Ross and Tate both had helpful things to say. Tate pointed out that the OpenURL button appears regardless of if the library has fulltext holdings or not. It just appears more prominiently if there is fulltext available. Ross [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, OpenURL on Jun 13th, 2005 3 Comments »
I’ve been following discussion about Google adding links to a library’s OpenURL resolver in a number of places including the SFX listserv, Web4Lib, and Making Links and anticipating our library’s migration to version 3 of SFX so that we can have links from Google Scholar to our OpenURL resolver. Now that we have a version [...]
Posted in Library Systems, OpenURL on May 21st, 2005 No Comments »
God yesterday was a long day! The day started with problems with our interlibrary loan system. We had run a script to delink user records from items borrowed in order to protect user privacy. Unfortunately, while the script work the way it was written, it had some nasty unanticipated side effects. Ones I didn’t catch [...]
Posted in Ongoing Projects, OpenURL on Jan 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Free E-books
This week I spent some time adding free e-books collections to our
OpenURL resolver. The most important set I got added as the
Escholarship editions from the University of California Press.
Information about how to link to these titles and a list of them is
available on the web at http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/help.html
This collection contains almost 500 publically available titles. [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, OpenURL on Jan 26th, 2005 No Comments »
DSpace and OpenURL
Today I spent the majority of the day working on getting our OpenURL
resolver to work with the SUNY instance of DSpace. The SUNY Office of
Library and Information Services has made about three hundred titles
from SUNY Press available to all the SUNY campuses via DSpace. In order
to link to these titles via our OpenURL [...]
Posted in OpenURL, RSS on Apr 19th, 2004 No Comments »
RSS, Federated Search/Library Portal, and OpenURL. I've been asked to take part in a session presenting on how RSS might be used in conjunction with an OpenURL link server (SFX), and a federated search and library portal product (MetaLib). I'm putting my first ideas down here,… [Overdue Ideas]
This topic is fascinating! It would be rather [...]
