[WEB4LIB] PubMed's Linkout and Proxy service

[Donald Barclay]

Bruce,

We do just what you are talking about. We use EZProxy, and the simple
solution is to put the URL for "our" PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=hamtmc

in the EZProxy config file. The only hitch is that users have to access
PubMed via our URL for the proxying to work. If they go directly to PubMed
on their own, they don't get proxied.

I can send you more details if you like. Kathy Kwan of the National Library
of Medicine is a good resource for this kind of question.

Donald A. Barclay
Assistant Director for Systems and Informatics
Houston Academy of Medicine--
Texas Medical Center Library
dbarclay at library.tmc.edu <mailto:dbarclay at library.tmc.edu>
713.799.7120

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who asks a more beautiful question
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[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Abbott, Bruce
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:35 AM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] PubMed's Linkout and Proxy service


Sorry for cross-postings.

We are investigating setting up the Linkout feature of PubMed and we're
wondering if anyone has managed to use a proxy service to allow linking to
the remote resources from PubMed for users who are not on your institution's
IP range.

Any details you could provide would be welcomed.

Bruce Abbott
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Library
433 Bolivar St.
New Orleans, LA  70112

504-568-7718 (fax)
504-568-6103 (voice)
babbot at lsuhsc.edu