[WEB4LIB] linking remote results w/local holdings... and some PHP

[Shirley Ainsworth]

Fernando
We have developed just such an interface here at the National University
in Mexico, with a simple search form to do cross database seaching (Silver
Platter databases, Current Contents, Pubmed, Ovid etc) and then link the
results to the full text journals we have access to here, more than
6,000. In most cases we can go straight to the article from the search
results. 
The system is called Hermes, the programs are written in perl, the
journal databases is in MySQL and it all runs on linux. 

If you like to know more, you can get in touch directly with Ana Maria
Escalante aescalan at ifisiol.unam.mx. 
For obvious reasons the system is limited to our University community, but
the url is http://leviatan.ifisiol.unam.mx/ref/hermes.html

Good luck
Shirley


Shirley Ainsworth
Bibliotecaria/Librarian
Instituto de Biotecnologia-UNAM
email shirley at ibt.unam.mx
fax (52) 777 3172388
tel (52) 55 5622-7603
http://www.ibt.unam.mx/biblioteca
ariel ip 132.248.32.82


On Fri, 17 May 2002, Fernando Gómez wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I am just experimenting with the following project: develop an interface
> which allows patrons or staff to perform a search in a (web based)
> abstracting database, and, before displaying the results, highlight in some
> way those results which correspond to journals available in our library. It
> involves a bit of HTML parsing, and a good dosis of luck, as it is not
> guaranteed that matches will be always correctly found. But in any case, it
> seems to be a worthwhile addition to a library OPAC (even if you have to
> alert about its fallibility) because in many situations it could save
> patrons a double search.
> 
> Now, the tools. I am inclined to do this with PHP; it has several functions
> to fetch a remote page and treat it essentially as an array or a string. My
> problem right now is that things like fopen("remote file") are working only
> with some sites, and not with many others (including the one I intend to
> work with!). So a bit of PHP expertise regarding these issues would be
> appreciatted. I am developing under Windows ME + Apache 2.0.36.
> 
> Also, I would like to know if anyone has worked in a similar project, and
> what experiences you would like to share. Maybe there are also some
> copyright issues around here?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Fernando J. Gómez
> 
> Biblioteca Dr. Antonio Monteiro
> Instituto de Matemática de Bahía Blanca
> Universidad Nacional del Sur / CONICET
> Bahía Blanca
> Argentina
> 
>