Generalizing the OpenURL Framework beyond References to Scholarly Works

Sompel, Herbert Van de; Beit-Arie, Oren

doi:10.1045/july2001-vandesompel

Cited by 18 publications

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“…A search of the Internet did not substantially add to the body of literature described above. It was, however, a useful reservoir of information about OpenURL link resolvers with small market share and it provided reinforcement in other cases by presenting more technology descriptions [33,32] more product descriptions and screen captures [6,10,11,13,14,17,22,23,26,27,29,30] and library-specific experiential information. Based on this literature review, it was concluded that there were no published critical comparisons of commercially available link resolver products in either the published professional literature or on the open Web.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A comparison of OpenURL link resolvers

Livingston

Sanford

Bretthauer

2006

Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services

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Open URL link resolvers are emerging technological tools designed to increase use of library collections by automating the process of locating and accessing library holdings. This study examines the system architecture and capabilities of commercially available OpenURL link resolvers to assess viable options for the University of Connecticut Libraries. Data for the study, largely experiential feedback received from libraries employing OpenURL link resolvers, were gathered through a series of evaluative activities. These included a preliminary literature review, Web survey, follow-up e-mail survey, and onsite visits to libraries. Results were analyzed within the context of the University of Connecticut Libraries' resources and needs. Analysis revealed wide variation in library experiences with and perception of product functionality and performance, as well as requisite staff and financial investments.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A comparison of OpenURL link resolvers

Livingston

Sanford

Bretthauer

2006

Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services

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“…Some work has begun on the development of standards in this area, to facilitate the identification and obtention of specific articles taking into account standard information obtained from the citation. Among these are the Open‐URL (Van de Sompel & Beit‐Arie, 2001) and DOI (Rosenblatt, 1997) initiatives, that have been used in the development of SFX and Cross‐Ref projects respectively, but much work remains to be done on the acceptance and implementation of standards before they can be effectively functional. Programming obstacles due to the refusal of some of the service providers to incorporate standard protocols into their search systems continue to dog the development of integrated information solutions.…”

Section: Chaos To Cosmosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hermes, the information messenger. Integrating information services and delivering them to the end user

Ainsworth

Escalante-Gonzalbo

2002

Proc of Assoc for Info

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The boom of the internet during the last 10 years has produced an accelerated and slightly chaotic growth in information services. User frustration with multiple databases, confusing interfaces, bewildering query languages, search protocols, and differing results formats has also increased. These services need to be both integrated and homogenized. Hermes is a research tool that uses specially designed acquisition, parsing and presentation methods to integrate information resources, from searching in disparate bibliographic databases, to accessing the full text articles online, and developing a web of information associated with each reference, via one seamless common interface. The system has been developed with Open Source software and has a Web interface. At present it searches 17 bibliographic databases on several different platforms, and delivers results from more than 7,000 full text electronic journals. We also discuss the obstacles that exist for the development of this kind of tool, due to the lack of acceptance and implementation of standards, and compare Hermes with other similar projects. Chaos to CosmosThere has been an explosive and rather chaotic growth in information services available on the internet in the last 10 years. Most of the service providers have migrated their database search platforms to the web, and the majority of academic journal publishers have developed electronic versions of their publications. (Grogg & Tenopir, 2000) This growth, like that of many other applications which have migrated or been developed on a web platform, ASIST 2002 Contributed Paper has been highly disorganized, and given the lack of rules and previously established standards, each supplier and publisher has decided independently both the formats and the access protocols for storage and search. As a result we have a tangle of sites, passwords, protocols and formats.As stated by Bollacker, Lawrence and Giles (2000): "Scientific literature accessible through the Web can be treated as a massive, noisy, disorganized database ...." Payette and Rieger (1997) comment on the same point, "Users often encounter frustration in their efforts to discover relevant sources, negotiate connections, learn resource-specific user interfaces, and search using a variety of inconsistent query languages and semantic conventions." The poor user is bewildered and is unable to use all the information services effectively. He/she is lost in the information space.Two basic problems can be identified: dispersion and heterogeneity. Information scatter makes it difficult to select and explore the range of available resources, and the user needs training in the use of heterogeneous systems to search and retrieve the information. As a first step we need to integrate and homogenize; that is, group together the greatest number possible of services in one place, with a single consistent interface. In an article about the creation of a Digital Library Federation, Liu et al. (2001) state clearly "The usefulness of the many on-line journals and sci...

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“…A possible approach to 'deep citation' (the referencing of subsets of an information object identified by a DOI) is the use of OpenURL ( Van de Sompel & Beit-Arie, 2001) to convey a query payload to the resource identified by the DOI. An implementation of this approach by CrossRef allows deep citing of content within International Tables for Crystallography Online (http://it.iucr.org) and may be a useful model for further investigation in the context of data sets.…”

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How to make deposition of images a reality

Guss¹,

McMahon²

2014

Acta Cryst D Biol Crystallogr

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The IUCr Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group is investigating the rationale and policies for routine deposition of diffraction images (and other primary experimental data sets). An information-management framework is described that should inform policy directions, and some of the technical and other issues that need to be addressed in an effort to achieve such a goal are analysed. In the near future, routine data deposition could be encouraged at one of the growing number of institutional repositories that accept data sets or at a generic data-publishing web repository service. To realise all of the potential benefits of depositing diffraction data, specialized archives would be preferable. Funding such an initiative will be challenging.

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Generalizing the OpenURL Framework beyond References to Scholarly Works

Cited by 18 publications

References 16 publications

A comparison of OpenURL link resolvers

A comparison of OpenURL link resolvers

Hermes, the information messenger. Integrating information services and delivering them to the end user

How to make deposition of images a reality

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