[Web4lib] Adding/building permalinks to full-text articles

[Scott Warren]

Tito Sierra and Josh Boyer here at NCSU put together an article linking 
service much as you describe. See http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/librarylinker/

Scott Warren

Jon Ritterbush wrote:
> Happy new year, everyone...  Over the past couple weeks, our library has
> been working on a project to help faculty members generate and embed
> permanent links, or permalinks, to full-text articles from our subscription
> databases.  The problem here and at my previous place of work has been
> explaining how to prefix a proxy string to the front of these article-level
> URLs (e.g.
> http://eres.regent.edu:2048/login?url=http://somedatabase.com/yadayada...)
>  
> Has anyone out there developed a better mousetrap to allow users to generate
> these kinds of permalinks WITH a proxy string?
>  
> TO ANY DATABASE VENDORS: one idea might be to enable individual libraries to
> embed these proxy prefixes to article-level links.  For example, a library
> administrator could insert the prefix http://proxy.library.edu... into some
> field in a database admin site.  This prefix would then be appended to any
> permalinks displayed or accessible from the database result screens.   
>  
> I think EBSCO and ProQuest already make a permalink available to users, they
> just lack the proxy prefix for off-campus access by authenticated users.
> Librarians who administer their Serials Solutions setup will understand what
> I'm talking about here, since SerSol already does this...
>  
> Thanks for any feedback or other suggestions!
>  
> Jon
>  
>
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