Manage resource linking

The following settings in the administrative module let you link your library, FirstSearch, and other Web resources useful to libraries and library users. Read more about them in the colorful booklet, Simple Steps to Maximize Library Resources (PDF: 13KB; 13pp.).

Links to your library’s catalog. Add a link to your library’s catalog from FirstSearch. You supply URLs (Catalog Search Entry, ISBN or ISSN Search Results), and the link appears in FirstSearch records in WorldCat and other selected databases. Users can click on the link to use your catalog and determine an item’s availability and location.

Z39.50 links. Add links to one or more Z39.50 catalogs to let your users view local shelf status information for items found while using FirstSearch.

Outbound linking. Activate links that increase the amount of full text available to your users. The links lead from FirstSearch’s detailed records to full text in other services that your library uses, such as JSTOR and Infotrieve.

OpenURL links. If your library maintains an OpenURL server connecting your users to other online resources, this setting lets you add links to FirstSearch that lead to those resources via the server. Specify the icon and/or text to use in your links, and the databases in which the links will appear.

Online Booksellers and Information Partners. Lets you create links between WorldCat listings in FirstSearch and online booksellers and information partners.

Select Translation Service. Indicate whether your users have available a Translate button for HTML full text within FirstSearch. An active account with Linguistic Systems Inc.’s Select Translation Service is required to enable this option.

Custom Web links. This feature lets you provide up to three links in the FirstSearch interface that lead to other Web sites, such as your library’s home page or Ask a Librarian page, or a preferred Web search engine.

In many cases, the pages resulting from these links are presented inside a FirstSearch branded window with a Return button, allowing users an easy way back to FirstSearch.