Link resolvers and the serials supply chain: a research project sponsored by UKSG

Culling, James

doi:10.1629/20111

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“…Standards are essential to exploit the system to its full potential. In 2007, a UKSG-driven initiative investigating link resolvers (Culling, 2007) had already highlighted the lack of understanding and cooperation between RDS, link resolvers and other agents in the serials supply chain, and produced a set of recommendations for link resolvers, open URLs and knowledge bases to facilitate interaction between systems, including the definition of standards to work within.…”

Section: Rds Stakeholders: the Complexity Of The Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of RDS on Usage of Electronic Content in UK Academic Libraries: Selected Results from a UKSG-Funded Project

2015

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Citation: SPEZI, V., CREASER, C., CONYERS, A., 2015 Abstract (100 words)Resource Discovery Services (RDS), also called Web-scale Discovery Services, have attracted considerable attention in recent years. This article aims to provide an environmental scan of the adoption of RDS in UK higher education libraries and provide an analysis of RDS resource usage data to gauge whether RDS have an impact on the overall usage of e-journals and e-books. Findings show that there appears to be a positive impact in most cases, although the extent of this impact varies across libraries and publishers. There is undeniably a degree of complexity in the usage analysis owing to the multi-dimensional nature of the environment.

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confidence: 99%

The Impact of RDS on Usage of Electronic Content in UK Academic Libraries: Selected Results from a UKSG-Funded Project

2015

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“…35 A report commissioned by the United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG) identified numerous incidences of compromised OpenURL linkage resulting from inaccurate, incomplete, and inconsistent metadata from content providers. 36 The report underscored the significance of the knowledge base in OpenURL linking, noting that "it is essential that the data residing in knowledge bases is current, accurate and reliable if users are to discover and access the content that is selected and acquired for them by librarians." 37 Furthermore, the report noted a lack of understanding among some content providers of the importance of accurate metadata and, specifically, the significance of the data they send to knowledge bases, which feed the link resolvers, which in turn drive traffic to content.…”

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Broken Links and Failed Access

Glasser¹

2012

Library Resources &Amp; Technical Services

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This paper highlights three industry initiatives currently working on ways to improve access to licensed electronic content. The three initiatives are KBART, IOTA, and PIE-J. Background information onL ibraries today rely heavily on electronic full-text content. Users like electronic access, but become frustrated when links to content do not work. The OpenURL standard ushered in a new and much improved way of linking to licensed electronic content, but despite broad adoption of OpenURL, links still fail and access to licensed content still eludes users more often than librarians would like. Even when links resolve correctly, users sometimes are unable to find what they seek because of how journal content is displayed on provider websites. This paper discusses some of the reasons behind failed access and describes in detail three industry initiatives currently working on ways to improve access to electronic content. The three initiatives are recommended practices for Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART), a two-year research project aimed at Improving OpenURLs Through Analytics (IOTA), and recommended practices for the Presentation and Identification of E-Journals (PIE-J). While these initiatives will not solve all access problems, they offer solutions to specific, known causes of electronic access failure. Understanding exactly what they do can help those involved in the electronic serials supply chain improve their own work, communicate effectively with others, and advocate for adoption of best practices by publishers and other content providers. To fully understand the initiatives, background information is presented on OpenURL, link resolvers, and knowledge bases, as well as detailed descriptions of the access problems the initiatives were developed to improve. The ultimate goal of this paper is to enhance understanding of the work being done by KBART, IOTA, and PIE-J to provide those who deal with electronic access issues with the information they need to effect change and ultimately bring better service to users.

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“…They summarized the causes of dead links as inaccurate source URL data, incomplete source URL data, inaccurate resolver knowledge base, resolver translation error, incomplete resolver target URL, no article-level linking, provider target URL translation error, incomplete provider content, and other miscellaneous reasons. The issues related to link resolvers included inaccurate and incomplete data, unclear responsibility for data quality, lack of data standards, inbound linking issues, and OpenURL issues (Culling, 2007). Wiley and Thomas (2009) reported similar issues and called for metadata improvement.…”

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Broken-Link Reports from SFX Users: How Publishers, Vendors and Libraries Can Do Better

Chen¹

2012

Serials Review

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This study analyzes more than 400 SFX broken-link reports sent by users of an academic library. It raises technical issues regarding OpenURL linking in the handling of special journal volume and issue numbers, journal supplemental issues, embargo release dates, book reviews, DOIs, and other areas. It reports on full-text resources with the most broken links, causes of broken links, and the library's responses to users. It also explores how journal publishers, database vendors, and OpenURL vendors can improve the quality of their products and how librarians can better serve users.

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Link resolvers and the serials supply chain: a research project sponsored by UKSG

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

The Impact of RDS on Usage of Electronic Content in UK Academic Libraries: Selected Results from a UKSG-Funded Project

The Impact of RDS on Usage of Electronic Content in UK Academic Libraries: Selected Results from a UKSG-Funded Project

Broken Links and Failed Access

Broken-Link Reports from SFX Users: How Publishers, Vendors and Libraries Can Do Better

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