OpenURL is an open NISO (National Information Standards Organization) standard that facilitates linking from a citation or other electronic resource to journal full texts and related online resources which are licensed and accessible through a user’s library. It is also known as dynamic context sensitive reference linking. What does this mean? It’s a seemingly simple but very powerful concept, linking search tools with full texts on-the-fly and bringing them under one umbrella that points to where a user is located (the institutional context), and the resources available via that institution. OpenURL, as I discovered, is a kind of fairy story that came true, of taming the Web non-commercially, of bringing library and user control into the online publishing and research equation.
Journal article
Open URL: linking through the maze of online resources
Online Currents, Vol.19(2), pp.3-8
2004
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Abstract
Details
- Title
- Open URL: linking through the maze of online resources
- Creators
- Katie Wilson - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Online Currents, Vol.19(2), pp.3-8
- Identifiers
- 1008; 991012821525602368
- Academic Unit
- Library Services
- Resource Type
- Journal article