Direct Journal Access to Titles in the FirstSearch
Electronic Collections Online Database
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 >.
If you have problems setting up direct journal access to titles in the Electronic
Collections Online database in FirstSearch, contact OCLC support,
or complete the form on the Contact
Us page.
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