OpenURL Bits

Paper on linking from Melvyl (CDL)

The California Digital Library published the results of focus groups [PDF] with UC public services librarians on linking to online resources from their shared catalog, Melvyl. Currently, libraries assign a Persistent Identifier to each resource, which resides in the MARC record's 856 field. The upshot is that librarians feel it's important to link to their SFX menu (UC eLinks) from the 856 instead of directly to the resource.

See also the entire Evaluation and Assessment reports page for usability and other studies relative to the UC eLinks project.

posted by Cindi @ 10:12 AM