[Web4lib] Open-access sites that generating OpenURLs

David J. Fiander dfiander at uwo.ca
Wed Dec 6 12:39:45 EST 2006


PubMed lets you choose an OpenURL service, but only from the set of 
services that they've approved.  Log into "My NCBI" (upper right corner) 
and look at the "Outside tool".

- David

Mike Taylor wrote:
> Does anyone know of any open-to-the-public sites that generate
> OpenURLs to a resolver of the user's choosing, selected by means of
> the cookiepusher or similar?  The closest thing I've found so far is
> Google Scholar using Openly's fine FireFox plugin, but unfortunately
> the quality of metadata there is atrocious -- I've yet to see a Google
> Scholar-generated OpenURL that includes a volume number, for example.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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