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Linking Technologies - Resolution to persistence. It's a minefield out there for information professionals trying to keep up with linking and cross-reference technologies on the internet. Tracey Caldwell takes you through some of the key issues surrounding link standards and initiatives like OpenURL, DOIs and CrossRef.(electronic texts)
A large part of an academic librarian's job is providing library users with access to the scholarly texts that the university has paid for. Many hours work goes into maintaining links to electronic texts at content providers, publishers and agencies.
Link resolvers have smoothed part of this process, but still depend on the maintenance of a database of links. Also, link resolvers rely on the librarian to let all their content providers know if and when there is a change to the library URL - following a security update, for example.
Contractual and access issues, among others, have slowed progress to the shared information environment nirvana, but there ...
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