[Web4lib] Federated search products and Full Text/PeerReview limiting

[Roy Tennant]

On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Karen Harker wrote:

> My conclusion then is, if we can let the user know the exact status  
> of obtaining each citation at the exact point of need, their  
> experience with the Library would improve.

Bingo.

> Which leads me to what I was originally going to ask Roy:  more  
> details (about their project), please....

What we are attempting to do is to use the ability of SFX to accept  
multiple OpenURLs in one resolving request to do a lookup before  
sending search results to the user interface. Since we haven't been  
able to get this to work yet, we are presently trying a work-around  
in which we send multiple requests. This is of course not optimal,  
but until we get a fix it will have to do. Luckily, our initial load  
should be relatively slight to begin with. I do not have anything  
publicly available to show yet, although we are getting close to an  
early alpha prototype.
Roy