[Eril-l] question about your openurl resolver and Taylor & Francis publisher site article inbound links

[Steve Oberg]

Melissa,

A quick reply to mention that SFX has had this capability as well for most of its existence, called direct linking. It can be done via a banner (deprecated), a sidebar, or without either option. Problems with T&F were first reported in the SFX community back in August of 2016, I think. Since we don’t use direct linking for article level linking (although we do for title-level linking), I am not sure if the sidebar option for SFX works well with T&F or not. Perhaps someone on this list who does can verify.

Steve

Steve Oberg
Assistant Professor and Group Leader for Resource Description and Digital Initiatives
Buswell Library, Wheaton College (IL)
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President, NASIG<http://www.nasig.org>
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On Oct 6, 2017, at 10:54 AM, Melissa Belvadi <mbelvadi at upei.ca<mailto:mbelvadi at upei.ca>> wrote:

We use EBSCO as our link resolver and take advantage of a nice feature that has the patron taken directly to the PDF via the first appropriate link in our holdings knowledgebase, rather than making them look at an intermediary list of choices and figure out what to do.

The problem is that EBSCO uses iframes to do this, and Taylor & Francis, apparently uniquely among all major publishers, has done something with their website design that blocks this kind of use. The result is that attempts to get to the PDF this way result in a mostly blank white screen for the patron.

I would like to know if other, non-EBSCO, openurl resolvers have a similar "take me directly to the PDF" option and if you use it, do you also have problems with T&F journals?

Thanks!

PS. If anyone out there using EBSCO says they don't have this problem, it's likely because you get your T&F journals directly from EBSCO so they can use Smartlinks rather than openurl links to get there. We have a consortial subscription package that does not work with EBSCO so we have to use openurl links instead.

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Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca<mailto:mbelvadi at upei.ca> 902-566-0581


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