[Eril-l] WorldCat FirstSearch problem and solution

[Steve Oberg]

Mary and others,

I don’t know if this is what you mean but our access via this method on Primo VE seems to work just fine.

What we currently have in the Catalog Entry Screen URL box: https://i-share-whe.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01CARLI_WHE:CARLI_WHE&lang=en

An example of a search driven from Firstsearch:

https://i-share-whe.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01CARLI_WHE:CARLI_WHE&sortby=rank&lang=en&query=any,contains,706020998

Steve

Steve Oberg
Assistant Professor and Group Leader for Acquisitions and Discovery Services
Buswell Library, Wheaton College (IL)
+1 (630) 752-5852

On Aug 12, 2022, at 2:26 PM, Mary Grenci <mgrenci at uoregon.edu<mailto:mgrenci at uoregon.edu>> wrote:

Thank you, Vernon, for posting this.   Can someone from a Primo VE library who has this working please send the URL that works for you? That will help our systems folks in getting this working for us.

Thank you!

Mary

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From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org>> On Behalf Of Leighton, H V
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2022 9:54 AM
To: eril-l at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>
Subject: [Eril-l] WorldCat FirstSearch problem and solution

Hi ERL Community,

  We noticed yesterday that many links to catalogs from WorldCat in FirstSearch were failing. If you search WorldCat in the FirstSearch interface, and you click on Libraries Worldwide, then if you click on the link to one of the libraries, the link often gives an error message that says, “System Failure Page: Unable to successfully complete transaction.”

  Thanks to help from Carrie Currie at PALS and other people, I was able to fix the problem for our library. For those of you who have the problem, here is what I was able to do.


  *   I went into OCLC FirstSearch admin module. (http://firstsearch.oclc.org/admin<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2Fnam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp*3A*2F*2Ffirstsearch.oclc.org*2Fadmin%26data%3D05*7C01*7CVLeighton*40winona.edu*7C7b09eed50483477d56df08da7c817b4e*7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f*7C0*7C0*7C637959193277776533*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C3000*7C*7C*7C%26sdata%3Di1IHOgdOUBO6BnKP91*2FkfcDoBjDAFR5MiMPeoVo0cGA*3D%26reserved%3D0__%3BJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!C5qS4YX3!Fv05lxmmZqSYZYlQCzLGsVL2-oH6rwjg1vPd2p-ITg-sdtSvyvrQiWY9foVEvxE9fsN1EaptUIqZeoDgN29sGtg%24&data=05%7C01%7Csteve.oberg%40wheaton.edu%7C5b18bf61c162447abf4908da7c98a21d%7Cb7098c8ac6b24e8bba4c872cf5f00a20%7C0%7C0%7C637959292845956760%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZTt3NlSRmC2azUCnjEcx6TQScy6aV0RwLajYW1g%2FcGA%3D&reserved=0>)
  *   Under “Linking,” I went to the screen for “Web Library Catalogs”
  *   Under “OCLC Number Search Results URL:” I added a URL.
  *   My own URL that worked (for Winona State) was: https://mnpals-wsu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/openurl/discovery/01MNPALS_WSU/01MNPALS_WSU:NewView?rft.oclcnum=<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2Fnam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps*3A*2F*2Fmnpals-wsu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com*2Fopenurl*2Fdiscovery*2F01MNPALS_WSU*2F01MNPALS_WSU*3ANewView*3Frft.oclcnum*3D%26data%3D05*7C01*7CVLeighton*40winona.edu*7C7b09eed50483477d56df08da7c817b4e*7C5011c7c60ab446ab9ef4fae74a921a7f*7C0*7C0*7C637959193277776533*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C3000*7C*7C*7C%26sdata%3DhaiNP9tXe97VujZqbai8XGryH8IVyrTAJunFCskhe4I*3D%26reserved%3D0__%3BJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSU!!C5qS4YX3!Fv05lxmmZqSYZYlQCzLGsVL2-oH6rwjg1vPd2p-ITg-sdtSvyvrQiWY9foVEvxE9fsN1EaptUIqZeoDgItNLfTg%24&data=05%7C01%7Csteve.oberg%40wheaton.edu%7C5b18bf61c162447abf4908da7c98a21d%7Cb7098c8ac6b24e8bba4c872cf5f00a20%7C0%7C0%7C637959292846113001%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VEsVKnPIY29xySvYUDEsopSM7pjWhHpTVwkTuKQUCVg%3D&reserved=0>


I have a suspicion that OCLC changed their access recently, perhaps switching from ISBN to OCLC Accession number. That is a good switch for ILL, but many libraries, such as Winona State, may have left that field blank. That would explain why so many libraries had their links break all at once.

Vernon
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