Hi Emma,

 

Please excuse the short note.


Yes, we’re experiencing similar issues. I’d really like to be able to suppress the OpenURL link on records in TA where it isn’t useful.

 

Our main strategy for getting around it is to try and make our link resolver knowledgebase as comprehensive as possible – including as many Open-Access resources as we can get accurate data for, and including a custom holdings package with our print collection (created from our LMS holdings and updated periodically).


Regards,

 

Paul

 

 

 

Paul Stainthorp

Electronic Resources Librarian

 

Great Central Warehouse University Library

University of Lincoln

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United Kingdom

 

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From: Talis Aspire Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Emma Illingworth
Sent: 18 March 2014 14:28
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Subject: Open URL question

 

Hello all, 

Hope everything is ace. 

We've been having a bit of a review of all things Aspire and would like to find out how you manage the Open URL link in certain article scenarios. There are specific situations we have with articles where we don't want the Open URL link to show, but when the resource type is set as journal article, the Open URL is part of that template and we wondered if anyone of you have experienced similar. 

So, the scenarios where we are interested in finding out what others are doing with the Open URL are as follows: 

- Print journal articles (we know the article is in print. the journal will have been bookmarked from the library catalogue and then the article added using 'is part of'. As soon as we add the article then the Open URL is included, which is misleading for the users because we know the article is not available electronically.) 

- Open access articles in journals where we don't have a subscription, but the article is freely available. (Again, as we don't have a subscription, the Open URL can be misleading in this situation as the display will be that we don't have it electronically and to check for print. We probs wouldn't have print either so the user could potentially get stuck)

We've tried to address the second scenario by using the 'online resource' button to direct them with the open access URL. The 'online resource' button shows in the main list and sort of then bypasses the Open URL, directing users to link in the web address field.

Can you let us know if you're experiencing similar scenarios and how you are dealing with them?

Thanks very much,


Emma

Emma Illingworth
Assistant Information Adviser (School of Environment and Technology)
University of Brighton, Aldrich Library, Cockcroft Building, Lewes Road, Brighton, BN2 4GJ.
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