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SFX Implementation at Yale – an Update. Kathleen Bauer Richard Crane Kimberly Parker Karen Reardon Matthew Wilcox. What is SFX?. Stands for Special Effects (you’ll never need to know this again) Provides context-sensitive links from one information resource to another
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SFX Implementation at Yale – an Update Kathleen Bauer Richard Crane Kimberly Parker Karen Reardon Matthew Wilcox
What is SFX? • Stands for Special Effects (you’ll never need to know this again) • Provides context-sensitive links from one information resource to another • Gets readers from here to there translucently…
Link Link Link Link Link Source Link Destination Link Destination Link Destination Service Component Link Destination Server OpenURL linking Context Sensitive Resource Resource Link Server . Appropriate OpenURL Reference Hook Provision of Hooks (OpenURL) Resolution into Links
Thinking Big and Beyond • From citations to fulltext • From article or book bibliographies to fulltext of what is being cited. • From journal reference to info about journal • From author name to … biographical information or … cited works of that author
Thinking Big and Beyond (2) • From course syllabus to course readings • From Orbis2 to fulltext, Ulrichs, Amazon, biographical tools, and more ... • From place names to maps • From keywords to related images or dictionaries, or encyclopedias, and more …
e-print A&I FTXT OPAC FTXT A&I Electronic Scholarly Information ¿¿ integrate/interlink ??
More Information • http://library.caltech.edu/help/sfx/sfx_executive_summary.htm • http://library.caltech.edu/help/sfx/sfxfaq.htm • http://info.med.yale.edu/library/subjects/sfx.html