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The Homebrew Option Issues With Locally Developed Resolvers October 29, 2003 Thomas Dowling tdowling @ ohiolink.edu
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Two OhioLINK Services You Should Know Locally loaded databases Locally loaded electronic journals Citation linking, 1998-2001
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Why We Did It Concern Over Consortial Features Budget Preference for toolkits over off-the-shelf products
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The Upside Total customizability Ability to work with/around pre-existing tool Ability to use open-source tools, go open- source with result
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The Non-Upside No pre-packaged holdings database Limited testing opportunities (e.g. for OpenURL 1.0 support) Red Queen Effect
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Maintaining the Knowledgebase Central consortium titles Local library titles Intra-consortium cooperation
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What It Takes To Go Homebrew Software is not hard Administrative control over holdings is critical
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