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BALSA and proposal for

OpenURL routing service

Andrew Bevan (EDINA user support)

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JISC funded datacentre at University of Edinburgh Along with MIMAS at University of Manchester

Runs online services and develops projects Bibliographic but not exclusively

Adoption of international standards e.g. Z39.50; becoming COUNTER (statistics) compliant

History, since 1996, of serials development work e.g. with ISSN register with SALSER; SUNCAT (Serials Union Catalogue for the UK); CASA: Cooperative Archive of Serials and Articles (EC project)

Collaborative work with UKOLN, in JISC programmes etc.

EDINA

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OpenURL policy

To accommodate other OpenURL resolvers http://edina.ac.uk/support/openurl.shtml

Make bibliographic services OpenURL aware All now enabled, to support links to OpenURL resolvers

SFX and Balsa, already activated for some sites

Also provide links to institutions' OpenURL resolvers One set up yesterday

Will follow OpenURL standard and adapt accordingly

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Part of Join-Up cluster of JISC 5/99 projects Xgrain, Zblsa, Docusend and ZETOC

ZBLSA - journals (and articles) locator Essentially an OpenURL resolver

Successor to EDINA links, prototype system Developed 2000-2003

Currently in use at several universities at no charge Used in conjunction with EDINA services

Aim to continue offering 2004-, proposal with JISC Project fully documented at http://edina.ac.uk/balsa/

Balsa

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Balsa

Open system, potential for use by other DSPs

Links to OPACs, Union catalogues and full-text services

Z39.50 (could be SOAP) call to sources for item’s availability

Using OpenURL – data passed such as ISSN, SICI, DOI

Future enhancements include link to Docusend for document delivery

Variability of effectiveness depending on publishers’ data As target and source

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Balsa buttonBalsa buttonBalsa sources with direct links to themBalsa sources with direct links to them

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Linking to the full-textLinking to the full-text

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Solution to problem for institutions and service providers time-saving device

Application for portals and other open-access services providing access to an OpenURL router

Proposal to JISC with support of UKOLN Decision hoped by early 2004

Reference table for DSPs to consult i.e. not a black box for use

Customisable at local level e.g. button design

OpenURL router proposal

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Scaling issue

Referrers Institutional resolvers

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OpenURL router benefits

All referring services use a single base URL: http://openurl.ac.uk

All institutions register the address of their OpenURL resolver with the national router

The national service routes each OpenURL request to the appropriate resolver

Reduces the cost to a discovery service of becoming OpenURL aware

Reduces the cost to an institution of registering its OpenURL resolver with each referring service

Boost overall awareness and usage of OpenURL

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Router model

Referrers Institutional resolvers

OpenURLrouter

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Comments or questions Sandy.Shaw@ed.ac.uk (project manager) or Tim.Stickland@ed.ac.uk (lead engineer) or edina@ed.ac.uk (main helpdesk)

URLs: http://edina.ac.uk/balsa/ http://edina.ac.uk/support/openurl.shtml http://edina.ac.uk/projects/

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