Ex Libris Announces SFX.(Brief Article)

Context-sensitive linking tool will be standalone; vendors sign on

Among the many announcements that greeted attendees at ALA was news that Ex Libris is beta-testing a new context-sensitive linking tool dubbed SFX and has cut deals with several other information providers such as ISI, Silver-Platter, Ovid, EBSCO, and OCLC to feature the tool in their respective systems. According to Ex Libris, SFX presents libraries with an "independent means of providing seamless interconnectivity among their ever-increasing collections of heterogeneous resources." The company went on to explain that because SFX allows libraries to define the links between information resources, the …