Meiko,
Yes we were surprised at the change. We had to do a
globaledit on the catalogue (a tense experience at any
time) to change all of the relevant 856 fields.
Also the correct URL is not shown at the top of the
relevant page (and so cannot be copied and pasted directly
into an 856).
Simon
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:58:23 +0100 (BST) Mieko Yamaguchi
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> Has anyone else been caught, like us, by the recent
> introduction of SwetsnetNavigator? We were pleased to
> learn before the launch that there would be no need to
> change URLs. We've now found that we can no longer access
> full text of NESLI journals from our catalogue since the
> URLs in the 856 field of our catalogue records are in the
> format:
>
> http://swets2.nesli.ac.uk/direct/issue?title=123456
>
> and the new URL appears to be:
>
> http://swets2.nesli.ac.uk/direct/SB_issue?title=123456
>
> It would take a long time to change all the URLs for NESLI
> journals in our catalogue - we are still working our way
> through Academic Press titles! But at least the old
> IDEALibrary URL re-directs the user to the new URL, whereas
> the old NESLI/Swetsnet URL only gives you an error message.
>
> Mieko
> ----- Mieko Yamaguchi
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> Coordinator +44 (0)1248 382970 Main Library,
> University of Wales Bangor, UK +44 (0)1248 382979 (Fax)
>
>
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Simon J. Bevan
Information Systems Manager
Kings Norton Library
Cranfield University
Cranfield
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