Eric Hellman Founder, President Openly Informatics ,Inc. Bloomfield, New Jersey

1. OpenURL and Linking in Libraries:Distributed AND REIntegrated Information Systems Eric Hellman Founder, President Openly Informatics ,Inc. Bloomfield, New Jersey

2. Outline • What is OpenURL? • What is a Link Server? • Demo and Technology Discussion

3. What is OpenURL??? OpenURL is an internet equivalent of the index card in the (paper-based) card catalog • Packages bibliographic data • Can be presented to internet services • NISO Standard

4. What is a Link-Server??? A Link-Server is an internet equivalent of a help desk in the (paper-based) library • Present it with bibliographic data or a query • It helps you locate the best information in the library • Standards-based - many product options; • 1Cate, SFX, LinkFinderPlus, ArticleLinker, LinkSource, LinkSolver… • now widely deployed >1,000 libraries

5. An internet library is built by librarians usingelectronic resources from many vendors ISI PubMed Journal Publishers Full text DBs EBSCO OPAC A&I service Google Scholar

6. Some services offer links to a few resources ISI PubMed Journal Publishers Full text DBs EBSCO OPAC A&I service Google Scholar User

7. Other services offer links to different resources ISI PubMed Journal Publishers Full text DBs EBSCO User OPAC A&I service Google Scholar

8. Linking is inconsistent and hard to manage ISI PubMed Journal Publishers EBSCO Full text DBs OPAC A&I service Google Scholar

9. Users are confused • Who is EBSCO? • What is a DOI? • Why doesn't my bookmark work?

10. A link server introduces consistent andcomprehensive linking throughout the library ISI PubMed Journal Publisher 1Cate Full text DBs EBSCO OPAC A&I service Google Scholar

11. Users see a Library, not a bunch of databases and a linking brand ISI ingenta Journal Publishers 1Cate EBSCO The Library Full text DBs A&I service Google OPAC User

12. How URL’s fail target • User's library doesn't subscribe to target • target authenticates by IP, user is off campus • User's library gets target item in a full-text aggregation • User's library has a locally hosted copy of target journal • User's country has a nationally hosted copy of target journal • target has moved its content without telling source • target has become a porn site This is known as the "Appropriate Copy Problem" URL source User

13. The link server lets the library fix these problems and determine which copy is appropriate ISI Pay per view $$$ ingenta A Journal Publishers  Library subscribes Full text DBs EBSCO A OPAC A&I service Google User

14. Demo: search in Google Scholar

15. Demo: clark university 1Cate

16. Demo: fulltext at Infotrac

17. Demo: azabu university

18. OpenURL: More than Full Text Links to OPAC for author, title Links to Google or Pubmed for article title Links to Amazon or Book in Print for ISBN, book author Links to Document Delivery or ILL for titles not found Links to patent and dissertation databases

19. OpenURL: low barrier http://sfx.caltech.edu/cgi?issn=0001-5623 resolver ? referent inserted by the information provider the thing the link is about

20. OpenURL: high function http://demo.1cate.com/index.html ? genre=article & issn=00219967 & volume=433 & issue=3 & date=20010507 & spage=364 &sid=EHOST:bbio& title=Journal+of+Comparative+Neurology & atitle=Hypoglossal+and+reticular+interneurons+involved+in+oro%2Dfacial+coordination+in+the+rat%2E resolver ? Referent, Referrer inserted by the information provider the thing the link is about can also include context information

21. OpenURL 1.0 : NISO standard http://demo.1cate.com/index.html?url_ver=Z39.88-2004& rft_fmt=info:ori/kev:mtx:jarticle &rft.genre=article & rft.issn=00219967 & rft.volume=433 & rft.issue=3 & rft.date=2001-05-07 & spage=364 &rfr_id=info:sid/ebsco.com:bbio& rft.title=Journal+of+Comparative+Neurology & rft.atitle=Hypoglossal+and+reticular+interneurons+involved+in+oro%2Dfacial+coordination+in+the+rat%2E resolver ? version & ContextObject ContextObject= Referent Referrer ReferringEntity ServiceType Requester Resolver

22. OpenURL: implemention Server side Select baseURL from institutional/customer profile Used by most OpenURL-enabled databases Network-based central-site link redirectors Crossref link redirector/resolver used by majority of STM journal publishers Client side - OpenURL COinS - new convention for embedding metadata in HTML Usable by non-subscription services: blogs static web pages free access publications pay-per-view content semantic web spiders

23. Sources and Targets FirstSearch, Infotrac, EBSCO, Proquest, SilverPlatter, CSA, Science Direct, Dialog, ABC-Clio, RLG, Web Of Science, OPACs, HW Wilson, ChemPort, EI, NISC, MathSciNet, Ingenta, SwetsWise, MetaPress, PubMed, Ovid, PubMed, Google Scholar . Sources (inbound OpenURL) Linking web services- Crossref, EBSCO, Amazon, Google URL services 900 different types of generated links Targets (outbound)

24. ? What is Where is J. Mol. Biol. 249, p.239 ? http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1995.0292 ! CrossRef

25. Adding Metadata Formats in OpenURL 1.0:Linking to Slugs • http://demo.1cate.com/?url_ver=Z39.88-2004& ctx_val_fmt=http://eusidic.org/organism& rft.genus=Ariolimax&rft.species=columbianus OpenURL Article mentioning the banana slug (source) Zoological Record (Ovid) ? Zoological Record (CSA) Zoological Record (Dialog) Zoological Record (NISC) SlugsRUs Genome databases

26. the Future of OpenURL • Full NISO 1.0 compliance in production • See our NISO OpenURL test suite google:"OpenURL test suite" • New domains- stocks, species, legal, music, ... • New applications- usage and collection metrics… • New expressions- xml, rdf, ... • New services- learning objects, distributed reference… OpenURL 1.0 is the glue for the internet library