Although we recommend the use of OpenURL for the 856 field in OPACS,
here's a url that takes your users one additional step to JOSA (it
just prechecks the JOSA box on the search form)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/default.cfm?journal=8
Eric
At 12:41 PM +0100 9/24/03, Lesley Crawshaw wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This has been bothering me for a while now (one of many little problems
>to be sorted), so I thought I would seek advice from this list.
>
>We recently took out a subscription to OpticsInfoBase at:
>http://www.opticsinfobase.org/, which gives us online only access to the
>Optical Society of America's online journals.
>
>Up to now we have had no problem linking to their titles. That was until
>they completed the digitization of the Journal of the Optical Society of
>America (and Applied Optics). For those who don't know Journal of the
>Optical Society of America split into Journal of the Optical Society of
>America A and Journal of the Optical Society of America B in 1984.
>Applied Optics also split into 3 sections in 1990, although Ulrichs
>still record this title as one journal.
>
>Now although we can link to each of the parts for the current titles,
>there is no way on OpticsInfoBase that we can link to the original
>titles i.e. Journal of the Optical Society of America and Applied
>Optics, from either our OPAC or our Virtual Learning Environment.
>Instead the only option we are being given is to advise users that they
>can search for that particular journal on Optics InfoBase and then
>browse the results in date order. That is the best that they can do to
>provide a means of browsing these former titles. However it doesn't seem
>very helpful to just point our users to the OpticsInfoBase site for
>these former titles and hope that they can figure out how to just pull
>up a list of that journals contents.
>
>Now whilst it is helpful to be able to search all or some of the OSA's
>journals through OpticsInfoBase and many users will choose to do that,
>should we not be able to link specifically to the older titles? I have
>emailed OSA on several occasions, pointing out that it does seem to be
>normal practice to be able to link to a former title. The American
>Physical Society's journals have many former reincarnations of titles,
>but each of them has a home page, even though that title no longer
>exists. Why are the OSA choosing to do things differently
>
>1. How have other people dealt with this on their OPACS? Do you just
>link to OpticsInfoBase?
>2. Should OpticsInfoBase not have a means that one can link to the
>former titles?
>
>I hope this makes sense and look forward to your replies!
>
>Cheers
>Lesley
>
>
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>University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB UK
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