[Web4lib] Federated search products andFullText/PeerReviewlimiting

Adam Brin abrin at brynmawr.edu
Mon Apr 24 12:28:55 EDT 2006 

We actually have developed a work-around for this approach in SFX but take a
different approach to Rochester as we don't have a metasearch tool.  Like
others, we wanted to ensure that users didn't have to choose between
sources, but get taken directly to the full text.  

In a sense, we show a mini-menu... allowing the user to go to the full-text
but get back to the Menu and a few other options.  We use the SFX logic and
sort rules to govern which targets are 'preferred'. 

You can see the result here:

http://sfx.exlibrisgroup.com:9003/haverf?sid=google&auinit=G&aulast=Mazza&at
itle=Absorption+of+anthocyanins+from+blueberries+and+serum+antioxidant+statu
s+in+human+subjects&id=pmid:12475297

The Frame (one of the few places where it actually is a functionally useful
thing) provides the context and a way to get back to the SFX Menu.

- adam

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Binkley, Peter
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:37 AM
To: Web4Lib
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Federated search products
andFullText/PeerReviewlimiting

Routing direct to full-text is an option in SFX (it chooses the first
full-text option based on the priorities you've configured), and we're
thinking of trying it. The downside is that if the link fails, there's
no safety net: the user never sees the other options that a menu might
offer.

I like Eric's image-based system, though it does raise an accessibility
problem: users who don't see the images won't have any way to benefit
from the pre-resolution. But perhaps a bit of AJAX could take care of
that.

Peter

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 8:24 AM
To: Web4Lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Federated search products and
FullText/PeerReviewlimiting

As intrigued as I am about this technique, the one downside I see is
that when you resolve OpenURLs this way, you cannot provide a link
directly to the full-text. That is, the user will still need to click
through the OpenURL resolver window, since the link on the page will
have already been constructed and delivered to the user BEFORE the
OpenURL is resolved. So that for me is an interesting trade-off:  
either you resolve before you put the results up for the user, and
potentially get rid of an additional click and a resolver menu for the
user to puzzle over, but suffer any speed consequences there may be, or
you put the results up faster but then force the user to go through the
resolver menu. 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. We are not presently doing
this, and I'm not sure who is. So, apparently we must pick our poison,
which is becoming a common refrain for those of us involved with
constructing metasearch services.
Roy

On Apr 23, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Eric Hellman wrote:

> From an architectural standpoint, I think that the image-based linking

> mechanism implemented in Scopus in cooperation with several 
> link-server vendors and being experimented with at Cal State Marcos is

> an excellent way for link servers to expose holdings information at 
> point-of-click. The neat thing is that if a OpenURL 1.0 ServiceType is

> used to trigger image serving, then the same mechanism can be used in 
> a wide variety of library applications.
>
> For an example of how this works, try the two OpenURL links below 
> http://derby.1cate.com/?
> rft.issn=0954-6820&svc_id=img&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&&rft_val_fmt=info:of
> i/fmt:kev:mtx:journal
>
> http://derby.1cate.com/? 
> rft.issn=0022-510X&svc_id=img&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&&rft_val_fmt=info:of
> i/fmt:kev:mtx:journal
>
> It is not difficult to engineer and deploy a link server application 
> that can handle image serving load without bogging down, as David 
> Walker is finding. Libraries should demand this engineering from their

> vendors!
>
> Eric
>
>> Roy said:
>>
>>>>  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.
>>
>> Karen, we're experimenting with a somewhat different approach here at

>> San Marcos, inspired in large part by the work Rolf Kwakkelaar has 
>> done at Elsevier with "image-based linking."
>>
>> Rather than send requests to SFX in advance of displaying search 
>> results, we're displaying the results first (so they load quickly), 
>> and then using the browser's inherent asynchronous loading of images 
>> to load in a full-text or non-full text image based on a query of our

>> SFX Knowledgebase -- unless, that is, the database itself has native 
>> full-text, in which case this processes is skipped.
>>
>> Also, rather then query SFX directly for availability, we're 
>> downloading a slimmed down set of information out of the SFX 
>> Knowledgebase, storing that info in a local Oracle database, and 
>> querying that (and caching results in memory).  That loads much, much

>> faster than trying to resolve a full OpenURL against the SFX API, and

>> also keeps our SFX server from getting swamped with requests.
>>
>> --Dave
>>
>> =========================
>> David Walker
>> Web Development Librarian
>> Library, Cal State San Marcos
>> 760-750-4379
>> http://public.csusm.edu/dwalker
>
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>
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