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Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link SUNY Library Software Users Group Conference 2008: “Brewing Up Solutions” Cliff Gilley Product Manager Serials Solutions

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link Introductions Cliff Gilley – Product Manager for 360 Link, 360 Core, and Client Center. Serials Solutions – Librarians Creating Solutions for Librarians – E-Resource Access & Management Systems (ERAMS) 360 Link – 360 Link = OpenURL Link Resolver

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link 360 Link: Overview 360 Link is Serials Solutions’ OpenURL Link Resolver product. OpenURL is a NISO standard method of locating appropriate resources from citation data. OpenURL traditionally has focused on identifying and locating electronic, full-text serials content. Customization options within 360 Link break the mold of full-text and enable unlimited resource lookup possibilities.

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link 360 Link: Customizations Three Methods of 360 Link Customization: Custom Links IFRAME integration Link API

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link 360 Link: Custom Links Overview: No Dead Ends! Alternate methods of accessing research. ANY resource that accepts URL data. Can be made “conditional”… – By Format or Full-Text Availability

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link 360 Link: Custom Links Use any of the following in your Custom Links URL: Article Number Article Title Author Full Name Corporate Author Author First Name Author Initials Author Last Name CODEN Identifier Date Electronic ISSN Hyphenated eISSN Ending Page Genre Inventor Full Name Inventor First Name Inventor Last Name ISBN ISSN Hyphenated ISSN Issue Number OCLC Code Page Range Place of Publication PubMed ID Publisher Quarter of Publication SICI Code Source ID Starting Page Season of Publication Title Volume

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link 360 Link: Custom Links Examples: Google News Search for Journal Author: Amazon.com Search for Book by ISBN: OPAC search by title and author: )+and+t:( )

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link 360 Link: Custom Links

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link 360 Link: IFRAME Customizations Overview: IFRAME is an HTML function that embeds external pages in any browser page. A step beyond simple links – we can display the RESULTS of the linked page in-line. OPAC Pre-Search Example: Create conditional linking into your OPAC by determining first whether the resource is available there – if so, link appears, if not, nothing appears.

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link IFRAME Example

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link 360 Link: IFRAME Example

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link 360 Link: XML API Overview: The XML API provides complete control and customization of the 360 Link user experience. This is the ultimate in customization options – we provide you all of the underlying data, and you create the experience your patrons want.

Helping Your Library Be the Best Partner for Research Serials Solutions® 360 Link 360 Link: XML API How does it work…?

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