Chapter 7: Other Linking Issues
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5860/ltr.42n1Abstract
“Imagine a world where library users never reach a dead end, never fail to find the electronic resources they have the need—and the right—to access. This is the ultimate potential of the OpenURL: to link, seamlessly, among a multitude of information providers—proprietary and open access alike. In a world where libraries must acquire, manage, and provide access to a host of search tools and information sources from a variegated group of content providers, the promise of the OpenURL is tantalizing indeed.” —
The latest issue of LTR tackles the “appropriate copy problem,” an important issue many libraries deal with when it comes to helping their users link to the “appropriate copies” in their collections‘ electronic resources. Authored by University of Alabama (UA) Libraries electronic-resources librarian and adjunct instructor at UA's School of Library & Information Studies Jill Grogg, the report also serves as a general survey of the OpenURL and context-sensitive linking.
Explains Grogg, “Exploiting the OpenURL, particularly v. 1.0, means linking to more than just the full text of scholary journals.” In one of the chapters, “Innovative Uses of the OpenURL,” Grogg canvasses the efforts of many librarians and “other linking gurus” that are using OpenURL in innovative ways. Additionally, the report examines many other context-sensitive linking issues and includes discussion about Google Scholar and other freely available scholarly search engines, linking for open-access materials and digital objects, and OCLC's linking initiatives.
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Jill E Grogg, Christine L Ferguson, '“OpenURL Linking with Google Scholar,”' Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals 13 no. 9 (2005): 39nIbid., 40.nIbid., 44.nIbid.nPeter Suber, “Open Access Overview: Focusing on Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research Articles and Their Preprints” (October 27, 2005), www.earlham.edu/∼peters/fos/overview.htmnJill E Grogg, '“Linking Users to Open Access,”' Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals 13 no. 4 (2005): 54nCarl Lagoze, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael Nelson, and Simeon Warner, eds.,
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(October 12, 2004), www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.htmlnPriscilla Caplan, '“OAI-PMH,”' Computers in Libraries 24 no. 2 (2004): 24nGrainger Engineering Library Information Center @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Experimental OAI Registry at UIUC,” http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/Info.aspnGrogg, “Linking Users to Open Access,” 56.nIbid., 55.nHerbert Van de Sompel, Jeffrey A. Young, and Thomas B. Hickey, “Using OAI-PHM…. Differently,”
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, no. 7/8 (July/August 2003), www.dlib.org/dlib/july03/young/07young.htmlnOren Beit-Arie, “OpenURL: Beyond Bibliographic Linking” (National Information Standards Organization, OpenURL and Metasearch: New Standards, Current Innovations, and Future Directions, September 19–21, 2005), www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/OpenURL-05-Agen-FINAL.htmlnIbid.nJeroen Bekaert, Lyudmila Balakireva, Patrick Hochstenbach, and Herbert Van de Sompel, “Using MPEG-21 DIP and NISO OpenURL for the Dynamic Dissemination of Complex Digital Objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library,”
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, no. 2 (February 2004), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february04/bekaert/02bekaert.htmlnJeroen Bekaert and Herbert Van de Sompel, “Access Interfaces for Open Archival Information Systems Based on the OAI-PMH and the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services” (Draft, Preprint, of an Accepted Submission for PV 2005, Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data, September 28, 2005), http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.DL/0509090nCaplan, “OAI-PMH.”.nOren Beit-Arie, telephone interview with the author, October 11, 2005.nOCLC, OpenWorldCat Program (2005), www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/default.htmnGrogg and Ferguson, “OpenURL Linking with Google Scholar,” 45.nPhil Norman, e-mail correspondence with author, Nov. 10, 2005.nIbid.nMike Hoover, telephone interview with the author, October 14, 2005; Ibid., “Being a Good OpenURL Source” (see chap. 3, n. 43).nHellman and McCormick, author interview (see chap. 6, n. 7).nn
