What is an Open URL

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What is an Open URL?

• It is a draft National Information Standards
  Organization standard
• NISO Z39.88-2003 the OpenURL Framework for
  Context-Sensitive Services. Parts 1 and 2
• Currently in its review period, 5/1/03-11/1/03
• Balloting will take place after the review
  period

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• The OpenURL standard allows a user who has
  retrieved an information resource citation to
  obtain immediate access to the most "appropriate"
  copy of the full resource through the
  implementation of extended linking services. The
  selection of the best source for the full
  resource is based on the user's and the
  organization's preferences related to location,
  cost, contractual or license agreements in place
  with information suppliers, etc. - all done
  transparently to the user. The transparency is
  accomplished by storing context sensitive
  metadata with the "OpenURL" link from the source
  citation, and linking it to a "resolver" server
  where the preference information and links to the
  source material are stored.

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If There Are No Other Questions?
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• Says

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• SFX is a unique and revolutionary tool for
  navigation and discovery, delivering powerful
  linking services in the scholarly information
  environment. With SFX, libraries can define rules
  that allow SFX to dynamically create links that
  fully integrate their information resources
  regardless of who hosts them -- the library
  itself or external information providers. The
  user is presented with context-sensitive links
  that are dynamically configured on the basis of
  the institution's e-collections.

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And It Continues

• Such resources could include
• full-text repositories
• abstracting, indexing, and citation databases
• online library catalogs and
• citations appearing in research articles, e-print
  systems, and other Web resources.

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And Continues

• SFX permits context-sensitive linking between
  these web-based resources whereby the target of
  a link depends on the digital library collection
  of the institution to which the user who
  requested the link is affiliated. No more "dead"
  links whereby the user clicks on a link to
  navigate to a new information space but finds
  that they do not have rights of access to the
  resource to which they have linked and are
  therefore blocked from access.

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• For an information service to be OpenURL aware,
  it needs to implement a way to know the
  difference between a user with access to an ISC
  and one without access. The exact mechanism isn't
  important.For users known to have access to an
  ISC, information services must then provide an
  OpenURL for each object to be passed on to the
  user.

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• OpenURL is premised on the idea that links should
  lead a user to appropriate resources. An ISC
  describes the context of the user. The SFX server
  from Ex Libris is an ISC that can read an OpenURL
  as input and take action upon it. A number of
  information services have developed or announced
  the ability to generate and output OpenURLs.

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• Welcome to SFX

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I SAY
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But First, A Word from our Sponsor, The Past

• Herbert Van de Sompel, University of Ghent
• ALA Annual Meeting, 2000
• ALA Midwinter, 2001
• Beta Tests--Harvard, Cal Tech, Los Alamos,
  Vanderbilt
• Cal Tech, March 2001

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IMPLEMENTATION

• Server setup early June, 2001
• Two day training by SFX - mid-June
• SFX team worked on setup, etc.
• Live to campus - mid-August, 2001, two weeks
  prior to beginning of Fall, 2001 Semester
• Version 2 live July, 2003

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But What Does This All Mean?
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• WSU Libraries

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SFX ILLiad Message

• To jwebb_at_wsu.eduSubject Interlibrary Loan Item
  Delivered ElectronicallyDear John Webb
• An article that you requested
• Title Tick-borne infections.
• Author Singh Behl
• TN 24088
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• has been received and processed by the
  Interlibrary Loan Staff.
• You can now access this item by logging on to
  ILLiad and choosing the "Electronic Delivery"
  option from your main menu.  The URL for logging
  on to ILLiad is
• http//www.dissertations.wsu.edu/illiad/pul/logon
  .html
• Your username for ILLIad is xxx
• If you have any questions about this service,
  please e-mail us at ill_at_mail.wsu.edu or call us
  at 509-335-5517.
• Your phone number is 335-9133

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What Makes SFX Work?

• OpenURL
• Knowledge Base
• Janet Chisman (chisman_at_wsu.edu)

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OpenURL Format

• http//sfxserver.uni.edu/sfxmenu?issn1234-5678da
  te1998volume12issue2spage13
• Sfx serversfxserver.uni.edu/sfxmenu
• ? Separates SFX address from item metadata

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OpenURL

• http//lib6.wsulibs.wsu.edu8888/sfx_local?sidSP
  BXpidAN200300246574genrearticleatitleHeredi
  tary20haemolytic20anaemias20and20parvovirus20
  infections20in20Jehovah27s20witnesses.titleB
  ritish-Journal-of-Haematologyissn0007-1048date
  2003volume121issue4spage675aulast

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SFX Use, 6/1/01-6/30/02

• Articles 544,600
• Books 29,184
• Journals 6,928
• ILLiad 2,600 (since April, 2003)

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Why Did I Want SFX?

• Linking and Leverage We maximize the
  effectiveness of our collection development
  --i.e., leverage them--by maximizing the
  linkages among them.
• Context sensitive linking gives the Library
  control over the linkages and allows us to link
  resources that do not have predetermined links.

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But Much More Interestingly

• Possibilities for connecting faculty courseware
  to Libraryware
• Possibilities of connecting Library sources to
  non-bibliographic targets, such as faculty
  research data
• Library can supply support to faculty or
  courseware developers in Open URL and metadata

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Thank You

• http//www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/JW/SFX-ILL-sep03.htm