SFX™ para Fornecedores de Informação
SFX provides the necessary breakthrough for information providers who aim to fully integrate their information resources into their customers' overall information services. Information providers can be commercial, such as publishers of e-journals or abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases; they can also be local libraries that publish information such as electronic theses and dissertations and want to include their local repositories in their interlinked environments.
Through the OpenURL framework, information providers can make their resources act as both sources of links and targets of links.
How to Become a Source of Context-Sensitive Links
Providers of information resources who want to offer context-sensitive linking in their resources need to make them OpenURL-aware. To accomplish this, an information provider needs to install a mechanism called a hook. For each record in the provider's database, the hook allows the insertion of a link to an institutional link server such as SFX.
By supplying the hooks that link back to institutional link servers at the individual libraries, information providers make it possible for those libraries to add customized linking services based on the local resources and policies. Because SFX allows libraries to define the links between information resources, the resources become fully integrated in the overall library environment no matter who hosts them--the library itself or external information providers.
With only a minimal investment, a library can implement the OpenURL standard for any resource that it wants to make available as an SFX source. For more information, download the PDF document "How to Make Information Resources Compatible with SFX Context-Sensitive Reference Linking Servers."
For a list of SFX sources, see the SFX Web site.
How to Become a Target of Context-Sensitive Links
SFX is distributed along with a knowledge base that includes a list of preconfigured targets. A library can configure its own targets, regardless of who furnishes them- external information providers or the library itself (for example, a library database or the library's document delivery service). To render a library database an SFX target and add it to the SFX knowledge base, the library needs to submit the details of the "link-to" syntax to Ex Libris. For more information, see section 3 of the document "How to Make Information Resources Compatible with SFX Context-Sensitive Reference Linking Servers" (resources/sfx/sfx_for_ips.pdf)
Working with Ex Libris to Implement Solutions
SFX users can liaise directly with information providers to request implementation of the OpenURL in the providers' resource(s). However, Ex Libris is eager to assist in this process and can recommend the most suitable approach to OpenURL implementation. Ex Libris can also offer an appropriate test base. For more information, please contact us.
