[Web4lib] Open-access sites that generating OpenURLs

[Jonathan Rochkind]

DOI is the only service I have been able to find that uses the actual 
'cookie pusher'. But your library (or resolver operator) need to be 
registered as a DOI affiliate for your resolver to be a choice. Cookie 
pusher isn't quite exactly the user's choosing either, is it?  Unless 
the user knows how to set up a cookie pusher URL, I guess.

Open Worldcat is open-to-the-public, but I don't think it lets the user 
choose their resolver, it chooses based on your IP, using the OCLC Link 
Resolver Registry. There are a handful of other open-to-the-public 
services that use the OCLC Registry, including canarydatabase.com. 

You don't need to use the Openly plugin to get your choice of resolvers 
with Google Scholar!  Without the Openly Plugin, Google Scholar will 
still let you choose (from those registered with Google Scholar).

If you are using the Openly plug-in, then ANY page that embeds "COinS" 
objects will turn into an OpenURL link via the Openly plug-in, to the 
resolver you have set for the plug-in. Look around for COinS implementors.

The NASA Astrophics Data System (http://adsabs.harvard.edu) will let the 
user choose a resolver from a list 
(http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/pref_set?4), or set the resolver via 
a special URL (which ends up setting a cookie) of the format: 
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/pref_set?4&OpenURL=OURL&Icon=ICON 
<http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/pref_set?4&OpenURL=OURL&Icon=ICON>

That's everything I know about, but there are probably a few more.

What are you trying to do exactly?

Jonathan



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Mike Taylor wrote:
> Does anyone know of any open-to-the-public sites that generate
> OpenURLs to a resolver of the user's choosing, selected by means of
> the cookiepusher or similar?  The closest thing I've found so far is
> Google Scholar using Openly's fine FireFox plugin, but unfortunately
> the quality of metadata there is atrocious -- I've yet to see a Google
> Scholar-generated OpenURL that includes a volume number, for example.
>
> Thanks.
>
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