What an OpenURL Looks Like
It's just a query string:
http://demo.1cate.com/?sid=FirstSearch%3AMEDLINE &genre=article &issn=0091-0627 &atitle=Emotional+expressiveness+during+peer+conflicts %3A+a+predictor+of+social+maladjustment+among+high-risk+preschoolers. &title=J+Abnorm+Child+Psychol &volume=28 &issue=4&spage=339 &date=2000 &aulast=Miller &aufirst=AL&pid=10949959
The library's resolver from Ebsco
The Problem at Hand
We search PsychInfo and get:
http://linksource.epnet.com/LinkSource/linking.aspx?sid=EBSCO:psyh &id=pmid: &genre=article &issn= &isbn=1591470706 &volume= &issue=&date=20040101 &spage= &title= &atitle=After%20the%20crash%3A%20Psychological%20assessment%20and%20treatment%20of%20survivors%20of%20motor%20vehicle%20accidents%20%282nd%20ed%2E%29%2E &aulast= &pid=<ebsco-pid><AN>2003-88368-000</AN><EDRS></EDRS><DATABASE>PsycINFO</DATABASE><FMT-T>No</FMT-T><FMT-P>No</FMT-P><hasfulltext>No</hasfulltext><IsLocal>Yes</IsLocal><PAGECT>475</PAGECT><PAGES></PAGES></ebsco-pid>&
Which is then sent to Illiad (Ill) as :
http://illiad.wcsu.edu/OpenURL/OpenURL?sid=ebsco &genre=article &issn= &atitle=After%20the%20crash%3A%20Psychological%20assessment%20and%20treatment%20of%20survivors%20of%20motor%20vehicle%20accidents%20%282nd%20ed%2E%29%2E &title= &aulast= &date=20040101 &volume= &issue= &spage=
The problem is that the linksource hardwires the genre as article. This makes Illiad not handle it correctly as a book.
What We Want To Do
Direct all openurls that have ISBNs to our resolver. Our resolver will search Consuls (http://www.consuls.org/search/i?SEARCH=1591470706) and scrape the reuslt for the regualr expression "Your entry .* would be here". If not found the search is successful and redirect the use to that url else direct the user to Inter-library loan.
OpenUrl Documents and Background
- OpenURL-0.1
This is before the standard and what most people support start here - OpenURL Framework Background
- Generalizing the Framework beyond just bibliographic works
- OpenURL Home
- Links to Download the OpenURL Standard
- Online Docs from OCLC