[WEB4LIB] SFX and WilsonWeb

[Charlie Irwin]

Frankly, our experience is that the new interface is lame. We have been advising patrons NOT to use WilsonWeb unless absolutely necessary. (As an education school, we DO need access to Education Abstracts.) Any insights into how to work around the bugs would be appreciated.

Charlie Irwin

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kenneth R. Irwin" <kirwin at wittenberg.edu>
Reply-To: kirwin at wittenberg.edu
Date:  Wed, 8 Jan 2003 06:29:14 -0800 (PST)

>Hi folks,
>
>Is anyone using the SFX capabilities of the new WilsonWeb interface?
>
>As nearly as I can tell, the *outgoing* SFX functionality (from WilsonWeb 
>to content from other vendors) is really lame: it seems to link only on the 
>database level and not the article level; and unless you host your own SFX 
>server, you don't have much control over what databases you link to. (It's 
>weird and complicated; I'll not try to explain it here.)
>
>If you have had a different experience (able to link on the article level, 
>or able to tailor the outgoing links to databases you have locally), I'd 
>really like to hear about it. I'd like to believe that no one would have 
>implemented a system as bad as this one seems to me. I hope it's because 
>I'm over-looking something.
>
>Also, is anyone using their local openURL-product-of-choice to link *to* 
>WilsonWeb fulltext? I'd like to hear about that too.
>
>Thanks,
>Ken
>
>Ken Irwin                                               kirwin at wittenberg.edu
>Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian        (937) 327-7594
>Thomas Library, Wittenberg University
>
>
>

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Charlie Irwin
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Wheelock College Library
132 Riverway
Boston, MA  02215
Phone: 617-879-2222
Fax:   617-879-2408
E-mail: cirwin at wheelock.edu
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