Chapter 3: Digging into the Data: Exposing the Causes of Resolver Failure
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OpenURL link resolvers have become a core component of a library user's toolkit, yet a historical comparison suggests that they fail nearly a third of the time, and have not improved over the past six years (see
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Cindi Trainor is the Coordinator of Library Technology and Data Services at the Eastern Kentucky University Libraries (EKU), and Jason Price is the Manager of Collections and Acquisitions at the Claremont Colleges Library, which serves the Claremont University Consortium (CUC).nJina Choi Wakimoto, David S. Walker, Katherine S. Dabbour, '“The Myths and Realities of SFX in Academic Libraries,”' The Journal of Academic Librarianship 32 no. 2 (March 2006): 127-136nIbid.nIf this seems far-fetched, try out the Pubget interface, http://pubget.comnFor an exhaustive representation of the data we collected, see the AllData worksheet in the MS Excel workbook available from http://bit.ly/openurltables2010nSee the IOTA project, www.openurlquality.orgnWe'd like to climb on our soapbox here: publishers like Wiley, Springer, and Elsevier that include “date published online” for each of their articles (a date that's often decades away from the actual publication date) confuse Google's automatic indexing, and confuse users as well. We are unaware of any academic or functional reason to include the date an article was “published” online.nFor information on fixing dissertation linking in SFX, see Geoff Sinclair, “SFX and Dissertations,” updated Oct. 28, 2009, Spotdocs website, http://spotdocs.scholarsportal.info/display/sfxdocs/SFX+and+DissertationsnFor a more comprehensive discussion of improvements to the link resolver menu interface, see chapter 2 and work on SFX by David Walker (“Improving the SFX Menu,” Jan. 3, 2007, http://library.calstate.edu/walker/2007/improving-the-sfx-menu/#more-26nBrooks-Kieffer, “Working the Workaround.”nn
