Suggest you look at
http://www.sfxit.com/
for a "practitioner" viewpoint. SFX is a proprietary implementation of OpenURL technology from ExLibris, the
library system vendor.
This migh help if your head is spinning after reading lots of the OpenURL white papers etc.
Hope this helps.
Jonathan Eaton
Electronic Resources Manager
London Business School
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> Dear Professional Colleagues:
>
> I would like to understand the concept of OpenURL. I have gone
> through some of the articles written by leading developers in this
> field but still the purpose and functioning is confusing. Could
> somebody throw light on this or provide me a couple of Web
> sources/references which provide a ''simple, not very technical'
> explanation of the concept of Open URL.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Prafulla Chandra
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