There are actually about 10 companies/places/insitutions that I know of that
have developed/distributing or selling open url resolvers
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries has GoldRush- contact George
Machovec
Unversity of North Carolina Greensboro Journal Finder-Contact Tim Bucknall
Serials Solutions (contact info on the web)
Fretwell Downing has an open url resolver in their portal product- Id on't
know if it's available separately.
Some of the large Intergrated Library Systems have open url resolvers-for
sale, either integrated or I think stand alone.
Wilson Indexes has a resolver you can use when searching their products (its
SFX)
Openly Informatics (1Cate) Eric Hellman contact.
ISI is distributing 1Cate as well.
I believe some Canadian libraries may have developed their own sytsem as
well.
As far as I can tell, They aren't rocket science-just laborious to
maintain.
I don't see why there couldn't be national level open url resolvers, so
everyone doesn't have to invent or negotiate for their own wheel. As a well
known systems person told last year, a handle is a handle is handle (ie.
these aren't these all referral/"handle" systems).
And maybe Herbert Van De Sompels institution, the University of Ghent-don't
know if they can duplicate, sell, etc. or not.
Hope I haven't left any out,-I'm sure I have--if anyone knows of more please
let me know!
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Kate Price [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 10:21 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: SFX
Dear Fatmeh,
EBSCO have a new product called "Link Source" which does this.
We don't subscribe as yet, but are fairly interested.
Best wishes,
Kate
On 19 May 2003, at 17:20, Fatmeh Charafeddine wrote:
> Is SFX a unique product ?
> We are looking for an aleternative to SFX. Is there any other link
resolver that provides
> OpenURL linking coming from different information providers ?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Fatme Charafeddine
> Serials Librarian/University Libraries
>
>
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