[Web4lib] Federated search products and FullText/PeerReviewlimiting

[Mark Jordan]

David Walker wrote:
>>> The only way around this I can see is if  
>>> your OpenURL resolver would automatically 
>>> route the user to full-text if it's available 
>>> without putting up a resolver menu.
> 
> Which is what I'd like to do here.
> 
> I'm thinking of something along the lines of GUF at Rochester, which not
> only sends the user directly to the full-text, but also does some
> pre-checking of the target to see if it is alive, and some additional
> drilling-down to the article level.
> 

I'd be interested to know how direct-to-document resolvers handle the 
appropriate cop(ies) problem -- what text does the Rochester resolver 
present to the user when the library has multiple versions of the same 
article from different vendors? Does it favor certain vendors? Just a 
question...

Mark


Mark Jordan
Head of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023
mjordan at sfu.ca / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/