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Direct Journal Access to Titles in the FirstSearch
Electronic Collections Online Database

Description of Direct Journal Access

OCLC has added the direct journal access capability to the IP Address Recognition and WebScript methods of accessing the Electronic Collections Online database in the OCLC FirstSearch service. You can use direct journal access to create hypertext links on web pages or in catalog records. When your users click on a link, they are automatically logged on to FirstSearch and taken to a specific journal within the Electronic Collections Online database. 

You may link your users directly to any of the following pages for a journal: 

  • The journal information page 
  • The table of contents of the current issue of the journal 
  • A list of available issues for the journal 
  • A journal-specific search form 

Your users can then browse within the journal. At any time, they can access other Electronic Collections Online journals or use any aspect of FirstSearch included in your FirstSearch account.

Note: You do not have to subscribe to a journal to provide a direct link to it; your users can still browse within the journal, although they will not be able to see abstracts or full-text articles. 

Direct Article Access Also Available

You can also add links on your library's web pages that lead directly to the full text of individual journal articles available in the Electronic Collections Online database and other databases in FirstSearch. This lets your users click a link to access the full text of a journal article and then return to your library's web pages without seeing other FirstSearch screens. This direct article access supports electronic reserves or reading lists you might provide on your web pages. Information about direct article access is available at FirstSearch direct article access.

WorldCat Records and Direct Journal Access

OCLC also adds journal-specific IP Address Recognition URLs in WorldCat records representing the paper and electronic versions of the journals available through Electronic Collections Online. FirstSearch users can link directly from those WorldCat records to the online journals in the Electronic Collections Online database in FirstSearch. When you catalog a journal through OCLC, you can keep the appropriate 856 field containing the URL when you download the record for use in your local catalog.

How to set up Direct Journal Access using IP Address Recognition

You will find complete instructions on the pages describing IP Address Recognition access to FirstSearch.

In brief, after requesting IP Address Recognition, you need to create links on your web pages. Use the following format for the URLs in those links: 

http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=eco&journal=0924-669x&screen=info&done=referer

URLs for use in links are also provided for you in a tab-delimited ASCII file. (See note below about this file.)

In the "journal=" segment of the URL, use the ISSNs for Electronic Collections Online journals from Find a journal.

In the "screen=" segment, use a value from the following table. If you leave this segment out of the link, the user is taken to the journal information page (for example, http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=eco&journal=0924-669x&done=referer).

Journal screen "screen=" segment
Journal information page screen=info;
Table of contents of the current issue of the journal screen=current;
List of available issues for the journal screen=available;
Journal-specific search form screen=search;

Tab-delimited ASCII file. For your convenience, there is a tab-delimited ASCII file containing the ISSN, journal name, publisher, and the IP Address URL formatted for each journal available within Electronic Collections Online. You can copy the appropriate URLs from the file and paste them into your web pages or catalog records.

How to set up Direct Journal Access using WebScript scripted access

To use WebScript for direct journal access, you must install the WebScript application and script, version 2.00 or higher, on your local host and create links pointing to the script. You can use a single script and specify a different journal in each of your links. Information about installing and using WebScript with FirstSearch and about specifying Electronic Collections Online journals in links is available at < http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/auto_logon.htm  >.

Getting assistance 

If you have problems setting up direct journal access to titles in the Electronic Collections Online database in FirstSearch, contact your OCLC regional service provider, OCLC support, or complete the form on the Contact Us page.