IL2004 - Monday - 14:20 OpenURL: Choices, choices

Originally posted 2004-11-16.

Athena Hoeppner
Marlene Porter

The October 2004 Computers in Libraries has a useful article
Helping You Buy: OpenURL Link Resolvers
by Christine L. Ferguson and Jill E. Grogg
(fulltext is not available online)

list of OpenURL resolvers
Athena presents a survey she did of vendors
- they contacted 20 vendors, got 13 responses

biggest remote vendors (remotely hosted)

LinkSource -157 installations
Journal Linker - 150
LinkSolver - 130

local
sfx 670
webbridge 168

total base (combined remote + local)
SFX
LinkSource
LinkFinderPlus

many different pricing structures

OHIOLINK - OLinks is free to OHIOLINK and ?is open source?
Godot ? open source from Canadians ??

UPDATED from web search: GODOT

Sirsi has largest knowledge base, but most in same ballpark (80,000 - 70,000)

OLinks only has titles for participating libraries

GetCopy - says full text providers should allow their services to be queried directly for access rights - check vendor on the fly - no knowledge base

GetCopy maybe uses SOAP?

resolvers can also offer many other extended services e.g. link to online bookstores, patent databases etc.

extended services - interest is increasingly in specifically targetted services - use Shibboleth auth info to show targetted information based on user roles

some reports may offer features similar to electronic journals management