Link Resolver icon wording

[Elish, Barbara]

We have only the name of our institution on our button.  No one has complained.

Barbara

Barbara Elish, MSLS, AHIP
Director, Hollis Health Sciences Library
Winthrop-University Hospital
259 First Street
Mineola, NY 11501
P: 516-663-2783
F:  516-663-8171
www.winthrop.org/library<http://www.winthrop.org/library>

From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lise Brin
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 1:22 PM
To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Link Resolver icon wording

Some of our faculty members have reported that they dislike the wording we have on our Link Resolver icon: "Get it @ X" (X stands for Xavier, short for our institutional name). To them, seeing "Get it" below an article conveys that they *will* be able to access this article, not that they will have to *check* the resolver to see whether we have a subscription that includes it.
I am therefore looking at alternate wordings. I see that quite a few institutions use "Find It" (which doesn't seem like much of an improvement) while others are using "Check for full text" which seems better, but is rather long, especially since most vendors only allow space for a *tiny* icon.
Have any of you made changes along these lines? Did you do any user testing to assess how different wordings were being understood, and if so, did you learn anything useful?

All the best,
Lise Brin
Emerging Services & Outreach Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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