#link resolvers

[stephenfrancoeur]

Jonathan Rochkind, "Streamlining access to Scholarly Resources," Bibliographic Wilderness

Pull quote: “Here at my place of work we don’t officially support Zotero or Mendeley, and haven’t spent much time figuring out how to get the most out of even the bibliographic management packages we do officially support.Perhaps we should spend more time with these, not just to support ‘bibliographic management’ needs, but as a method to get users from the open web to authenticated access to an appropriate copy.  And perhaps we should do other R&D in ‘bookmarklets'; in machine learning for citation parsing so users can just paste a citation into a box (perhaps via bookmarklet) to get authenticated access to appropriate copy; in anything else we can think of to: Get the user from the open web to licensed copies.  To be able to provide some useful help for accessing scholarly resources to our patrons, instead of just serving as a checkbook. With some library branding, so they recognize us as doing something useful after all.”

[stephenfrancoeur]

Pull quote: "Even after more than 10 years of OpenURL use by vendors and libraries, link resolver vendors still struggle to find and maintain the links between link resolvers and content providers. This is a ripe, or perhaps even over-ripe, space for a library standard or best practice."

[stephenfrancoeur]

Pull quote: "Umlaut aggregates services for specific citations from multiple internal and external service providers and knowledge bases. (catalog, link resolver, Amazon, HathiTrust, ILL, many more). It has no knowledge base of it’s own, it provides 'just in time' responses; Umlaut fills the need of what you do after 'discovery', the 'last mile' — I’ve found something I’m interested in, what can I do with it through resources provided or selected by my institution?"

[stephenfrancoeur]

Pull quote: "My thinking behind Umlaut’s architecture these days is that you’ve got to have software which can take a machine-described 'thing someone is interested in' and tell them everything that your institution (which they presumably are affiliated with) can do for them for that item. That’s exactly what Umlaut tries to do, providing a platform that you can use to piece together information from your various silo’d knowledge bases and third party resources, etc. And including ALL your stuff, monographs etc., not just journal articles like typical 'link resolvers'."