[Web4lib] Federated search products and FullText/PeerReviewlimiting

[Karen Harker]

What's good about LFP is that it can be applied to vendor or even the
title level, whereas with other link resolvers, it is an all-or-nothing
setting.  Some vendors are quite trustworthy and we can feel secure in
sending the user directly to the full-text.  Others are definitely not
so, or LFP does not have the best configuration.  I would highly
recommend that all link resolvers make this feature available at the
title or at least vendor level.
 
 
Karen R. Harker, MLS
UT Southwestern Medical Library
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX  75390-9049
214-648-8946
http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/library/

>>> Eric Hellman <eric at openly.com> 4/24/2006 11:22 AM >>>

In our system, there are 3 modes configurable by the library
autoredirect=off  --- always show the link-server page
autoredirect=single  --- this means redirect if there is one and only 
one 'best' link
autoredirect=best    --- redirect to the first 'best' link found even 
if there are multiple high quality links; links can be ordered by 
preferred providers

I believe that Endeavor's LinkFinderPlus was the first commercial 
OpenURL resolver that touted this sort of capability.

Eric


At 8:30 AM -0700 4/24/06, Mark Jordan wrote:
>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/

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