[WEB4LIB] Re: LexisNexis responds to request for direct linking...

[Leo Robert Klein]

Person from LN wroteth: "We are very aware that user expectations are
everchanging..."

That did seem a bit of a stretch to me.  I spose they want to hold back
their material so that you can first experience the wonders of their
search interface.  That alone will make anything you eventually dig up a
thousand times more valueable.  It's tough love.

LEO

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Leo Robert Klein
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On Thu, April 14, 2005 7:46 am, Thomas Dowling said:
> I think that's about the same response I got from them on this subject
> two or three years ago.
>
> IIRC, Ex Libris was testing SFX five years ago, and D-Lib published one
> of the first OpenURL papers (maybe *the* first? -
> <http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/march2001-vandesompel>) over four years ago.
>  The need to support article-level linking existed well before that;
> this was just a framework to hang it on.  Full text vendors who really
> make this a high priority got it done long ago.
>
>
> Thomas Dowling
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dear Mr. Wuolu,
>>
>> Thank you for your note. Rest assured that this is a very high
>> priority within the academic group of LexisNexis and we are working on
>> developing the capabilities that you request. Unfortunately, as is the
>> case within many large operations, it takes time to both fund and
>> implement such changes to a system. We are very aware that user
>> expectations are everchanging and that we need to respond to these
>> issues.
>>