[WEB4LIB] Re: Vendors Who Borrow from One Another

[Karen Harker]

We are in the final stages of LFP implementation.  At this moment, our
users do not interact with it much primarily because the sources have
been limited.  However, we are also migrating to Ovid Online, which is a
source and will impact our clients.  
 
 
 
Karen R. Harker, MLS
UT Southwestern Medical Library
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75390-9049
214-648-1698
http://www.swmed.edu/library/

>>> Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu> 7/29/02 12:55:09 PM >>>
Howard:
>>I realize that vendors need to offer products which are competitive
to stay
>>in business, but it gets a little ridiculous when they end of
stealing web
>>pages from one another without even bothering to change the font.

Bill:
>The real question is now:
>
>Which came first, ExLibris or Endeavor?


I submit that I specified Arial in a web page back in 1995, so
ultimately 
they both stole from me.  :->

Ex Libris knows that their SFX bread is buttered on the open standards
side 
(to mangle a metaphor), so it's reasonable to suppose they're willing
to 
share what they know about OpenURL support.  And it's entirely
reasonable 
to suppose that the Endeavor folks, trying to explain LinkFinder Plus
to 
their own customers, asked for and got permission to use the list on
the 
www.sfxit.com site.  At most, I'd say it's uncharitable for the
Endeavor 
list to leave out Ex Libris.

BTW, while the NISO page is at 
<http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html>, the actual work
being 
done by the committee can be tracked at the committee's home page, 
<http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/>.

Also BTW, are there any actual LinkFinder Plus users yet?



Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu 






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