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JIBS OpenURL meeting 17 Sept 2003
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BALSA and proposal for
OpenURL routing service
Andrew Bevan (EDINA user support)
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JISC funded datacentre at University of Edinburgh Along with MIMAS at University of Manchester
Runs online services and develops projects Bibliographic but not exclusively
Adoption of international standards e.g. Z39.50; becoming COUNTER (statistics) compliant
History, since 1996, of serials development work e.g. with ISSN register with SALSER; SUNCAT (Serials Union Catalogue for the UK); CASA: Cooperative Archive of Serials and Articles (EC project)
Collaborative work with UKOLN, in JISC programmes etc.
EDINA
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OpenURL policy
To accommodate other OpenURL resolvers http://edina.ac.uk/support/openurl.shtml
Make bibliographic services OpenURL aware All now enabled, to support links to OpenURL resolvers
SFX and Balsa, already activated for some sites
Also provide links to institutions' OpenURL resolvers One set up yesterday
Will follow OpenURL standard and adapt accordingly
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Part of Join-Up cluster of JISC 5/99 projects Xgrain, Zblsa, Docusend and ZETOC
ZBLSA - journals (and articles) locator Essentially an OpenURL resolver
Successor to EDINA links, prototype system Developed 2000-2003
Currently in use at several universities at no charge Used in conjunction with EDINA services
Aim to continue offering 2004-, proposal with JISC Project fully documented at http://edina.ac.uk/balsa/
Balsa
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Balsa
Open system, potential for use by other DSPs
Links to OPACs, Union catalogues and full-text services
Z39.50 (could be SOAP) call to sources for item’s availability
Using OpenURL – data passed such as ISSN, SICI, DOI
Future enhancements include link to Docusend for document delivery
Variability of effectiveness depending on publishers’ data As target and source
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Balsa buttonBalsa buttonBalsa sources with direct links to themBalsa sources with direct links to them
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Linking to the full-textLinking to the full-text
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Solution to problem for institutions and service providers time-saving device
Application for portals and other open-access services providing access to an OpenURL router
Proposal to JISC with support of UKOLN Decision hoped by early 2004
Reference table for DSPs to consult i.e. not a black box for use
Customisable at local level e.g. button design
OpenURL router proposal
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Scaling issue
Referrers Institutional resolvers
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OpenURL router benefits
All referring services use a single base URL: http://openurl.ac.uk
All institutions register the address of their OpenURL resolver with the national router
The national service routes each OpenURL request to the appropriate resolver
Reduces the cost to a discovery service of becoming OpenURL aware
Reduces the cost to an institution of registering its OpenURL resolver with each referring service
Boost overall awareness and usage of OpenURL
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Router model
Referrers Institutional resolvers
OpenURLrouter
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Comments or questions [email protected] (project manager) or [email protected] (lead engineer) or [email protected] (main helpdesk)
URLs: http://edina.ac.uk/balsa/ http://edina.ac.uk/support/openurl.shtml http://edina.ac.uk/projects/
EDINA