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Drupal Link Resolver module

The Link Resolver Module provides Drupal with a local mechanism to add and maintain institutional link resolver data (institution name, resolver url, etc). Data can be added manually but is also "automagically" captured via the WorldCat OpenURL Gateway IP lookup service as users visit your site, imported en masse via CSV (a default list is included in the module) or added via a WorldCat Registry Institutional ID lookup.

Chad Fennell, University of Minnesota
ERIC

ERIC provides Find in a Library links in records that contain an ISSN or ISBN. ERIC users navigate either to their institution’s holdings or to WorldCat.org for a list of the nearest libraries holding the resource.

Jane Atwell, ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
Find in a Library - Wageningen UR Library Catalogue

This widget adds a "Find in A Library" button to the sidebar of the Wageningen UR Library Catalogue full record screen. The button builds an OpenURL for the item and routes users to the appropriate link resolver by using the OpenURL Gateway

Peter van Boheemen, Wageningen University
LibX plug-in

LibX is a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides direct access to your library's resources.
LibX is an open source framework from which editions for specific libraries can be built.
Currently, 773 academic and public libraries have created public LibX editions.

Annette Bailey and Godmar Back, Virginia Tech
OpenURL Gateway at The University of Auckland

When someone outside The University of Auckland tries the “Find Full Text” button from their DSsace repository item, they will be redirected to their own OpenURL servers as they are listed in the WorldCat Registry. If a subscription exists, s/he will be able to use her own authentication to be connected to full-text content. A configuration setting allows the system administrator to choose the appropriate fields to cross walk to the OpenURL elements. When a DOI is available this is used first, if not then other metadata elements are used to construct the OpenURL search string. This implementation solves the "appropriate copy" issue and provides for multiple choices if available.

 

Janet Copsey, The University of Auckland
PrimateLit

PrimateLit is a free bibliographic database for primatology that relies on the WorldCat Registry for OpenURL recognition. This OpenURL recognition provides full text access to articles for any institution from any location.

Sue Dentinger, University of Wisconsin – Madison
RefWorks

Through the OpenURL Gateway in the WorldCat Registry, RefShare “owners” can change the OpenURL link in their shared folder to point to their up-to-date WorldCat Registry information. This means that RefShare viewers, from any WorldCat-registered university, can now be directed to their full-text access. Before the OpenURL Gateway, users from outside the instiutions could not be redirected.

Colleen Stempien, RefWorks
Zotero

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself. Zotero uses the WorldCat Registry's OpenURL Gateway as its default resolver. In many cases, it connects automatically to the resource on your campus.

Trevor Owens, Center for History and New Media

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