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This list of OpenURL resolvers has product name links arranged alphabetically followed by the vendor or provider name link and a brief description. View the external product Web sites for specific features.
Article Linker™ -- Serials Solutions™, Inc.
"Serials Solutions™ Article Linker™ is a full-feature OpenURL link resolver that seamlessly links all of your library resources. When you or your patron finds a citation or reference to a specific article, Article Linker™ supplies the best available path to the content, anywhere in your collection."
EBSCO CustomLinks™ and EBSCO SmartLinks™ -- EBSCO Publishing
"With EBSCO CustomLinks™ libraries can easily create and manage multiple customized links to relevant Web-based resources." These resources may include library OPAC's, ILL services, book vendors, linking servers, and search engines in a customizable interface. "EBSCO SmartLinks™ automatically inserts links to full text into EBSCOhost ® search results."
Journal Linker™ -- Serials Solutions™, Inc.
"Included with a subscription to Serials Solutions™ E-Journal A.M.S. or full MARC records services. Serials Solutions'™ Journal Linker™ provides the most important benefit of OpenURL servers – context specific linking. Journal Linker™ enables you and your patrons to easily link from abstracts and indexes to the full-text of the cited journal, anywhere in your collection."
LinkFinderPlus™ -- Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.
"LinkFinderPlus™ is a comprehensive linking system that makes the research process more efficient by providing the user with a link to the full text of articles from a citation on a publisher or database website using OpenURL, a standard format." It "... may also link them to related electronic resources, such as search engines, online booksellers and other resources and services as defined by the library." "LinkFinderPlus™ is available as a standalone system, with ENCompass™, or as the LinkFinderPlus™ Subscription Service hosted by Endeavor."
LinkSource™ -- EBSCO Publishing
"LinkSource™ is an OpenURL resolver designed specifically with the needs of research-oriented institutions in mind. Researchers are just a simple mouse-click away from a comprehensive menu of links related to their search result. Using LinkSource’s simple menu-driven interface, libraries can add specific item level linking to a wide variety of online information resources."
1Cate -- Openly Informatics, Inc.
"The 1Cate Project (that's one-cate) was started by Openly Informatics to provide the information industry with a platform for open, interoperable development of link-server software. " "Just pick your data sources and library configurations, give us a web-page design, and we'll create and host a 1Cate e-journal access and linking system for your institution, including CrossRef, OpenURL, and JournalSeek linking, title search, and alphabetical title lists."
SFX™ -- Ex Libris (USA), Inc.
"The Ex Libris SFX™ technology, fully integrated in MetaLib®, provides context-sensitive reference linking from retrieved records to related resources and services and thus seamlessly links heterogeneous sources of scholarly information. ... With SFX™, libraries can define rules that allow SFX™ to dynamically create links that fully integrate their information resources regardless of who hosts them -- the library itself or external information providers."
SirsiResolver™ -- SIRSI Corporation
"Sirsi Resolver™ lets your library bring together all the information resources available to your users through the latest and most powerful OpenURL reference linking. With Sirsi Resolver™, related information available from different providers can now be integrated into one seamless response to a user’s query." "Sirsi Resolver™ makes the citation information come alive by returning the full text of the article, professional reviews, author information - virtually any related information, free or licensed, to which the library has access."
TOUR,
TDNet OpenURL Resolver -- TDNet
"TOUR is introduced as a: complementary service to the TDNet's Electronic Journals Management system for journal holdings management, complementary service to TES - TDNet eContents Searcher - for federated searching on OpenURL and non OpenURL databases, [and] stand alone link resolving from OpenURL databases." "TDNet is a custom-made e-journal service, tailored to include all and only your chosen titles, and to reflect your current access arrangements for every title on the system." "TDNet provides direct access to: Full-text, table Of contents, back year archives, publisher sites, aggregator sites, locally stored URLs."
WebBridge, Millennium Access Plus (MAP) -- Innovative Interfaces Inc.
"WebBridge offers a smart linking capability, which seamlessly enables libraries to link together information resources when appropriate. This can include content enrichment such as book-jacket images and book reviews, but can also include linking to the most appropriate copy of full-text journal articles or e-books.... Links are dynamic, contextual, and library-defined.
... Compatible with emerging linking initiatives such as OpenURL, CrossRef, and DOI (Digital Object Indentifier).
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