At Reading we currently include links to e-journal titles in the 856 field
of our webcat. Each month I extract a list of these and run them through
an Urlchecker to ensure that the links are not broken.
I would be interested in hearing how other sites are checking their links.
Either for those included in their catalogue or on separate listings in
their webpages.
I find the results that come back either say the links are ok, access
denied for robots, access is forbidden, no response from host, file not
found. Catchword, Wiley, Cambridge, American Institute of Physics and the
Institute of Physics periodicals all seem to fall into the category of
Access denied for robots Oxford and Elsevier seem to fall into the
category of Access forbidden
and I am a little puzzled as to why others which are ip address controlled
e.g. JSTOR come back saying OK - how far is the urlchecker going - is it
just getting to the JSTOR site or is it getting to my individual title,
the same applies to ingenta journals I am using the easylink access so is
it just getting as far as the login page again?
Siobhan
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Siobhan Wood
Metadata Co-ordinator / Liaison Librarian (Geography)
University of Reading Library
Whiteknights
P.O. Box 223
Reading
RG6 6AE
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Tel: (01189) 318770 x7488
Fax: (01189) 316636
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