OpenURL Bits

CrossRef resolver

The CrossRef OpenURL resolver might come in handy soon, as we examine the CrossRef links that appear for our holdings.

posted by Cindi @ 2:18 PM 0 comments

OCOinS

Still wrapping my head around OpenURL ContextObject in SPAN; sounds like it might have real potential. This specification would allow authors to embed bibliographic citation metadata into HTML. From the site:

Open Access, public domain, and pay-per-use publishers typically do not have "subscribers" and have difficulty discovering a user's institutional affiliation which is needed to make an OpenURL. Embedded metadata can be used by client-side software to add links to non-subscription based content. This method of providing OpenURL links to users by combining embedded metadata with client side link activation has been called "latent OpenURL".

Very cool.

posted by Cindi @ 2:11 PM 0 comments

Wikipedia speaks

Of course, there's a Wikipedia entry for OpenURL. IMHO, it's a bit sparse.

posted by Cindi @ 2:07 PM 0 comments