OpenURL is a great innovation and has great power to improve electronic access. It allows library users to retrieve full-text articles seamlessly from any databases as long as their desired articles reside in any one of the library’s licensed databases. It can also display a set of other web services available to users, such as links to library catalog for holding and location info, interlibrary loan applications, etc --depending on how hosting institutions configure their link resolver. OpenURL technology will surely continue to transform how libraries manage electronic materials access and how library users use library resource to conduct research. Here is what I have done for week 10 training.
1. I searched on Google Scholar and found an article “Fingerprints of Global Warming on Wild Animals and Plants”.
2. I entered the information from my Google Scholar citation in the Citation Finder form. The Citation Finder then returns the same search result as that from the Google Scholar. When I changed one piece of info, I was still able to get the citation for this article. But it was inaccurate with the wrong metadata elements—with whatever I had altered, such as vol. issue, page, etc. I’m still confused about this. I noticed that people posted different search results on their blog. What is the cause of this great variation?
3. The following is the citation and the OpenURL in the text box. I don’t quite understand all the acronyms and parameters. But I can see that each citation element is embedded in the OpenURL. It has 3 components: the base URL of CSUF’s link resolver, an identifier for sfxit.com:citation as the OpenURL source (“origin-description”), and the article citation metadata (“object-description”).
"Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants." Nature 421.6918 (2003):57.
http://sfx.calstate.edu:9003/fullerton?ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&ctx_id=10_1&ctx_tim=2009-5-06T16%3A46%3A54PDT&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsfxit.com%3Acitation&rft.atitle=Fingerprints%20of%20global%20warming%20on%20wild%20animals%20and%20plants&rft.date=2003&rft.genre=article&rft.issn=0028-0836&rft.issue=6918&rft.jtitle=nature&rft.spage=57&rft.volume=421&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Aarticle&sfx.title_search=exact&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&url_ver=Z39.88-2004
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There could be many reasons for what you discovered when you changed some of the metadata in the form. I wonder if after you changed the metadata, you were able to get the full text link as you did with the correct metadata? If you didn't change the ISSN, SFX would at least be able to tell you which database has full text coverage for that journal, if not whether the specific article was available.
ReplyDeleteThe citation would be wrong because it's created with the information you entered. If you enter the wrong metadata, SFX will only look for that metadata. In some cases, SFX is successful in getting to the journal instead of to the exact article, but much of the time, without accurate metadata, SFX cannot make a full text recommendation.
Great description on this OpenURL entry. You clearly understand how the OpenURL works, it's elements and it's significant to library users.