Ross, U of Cal did this in their own link resolver years ago. It drives
patron-initiated ILL. Sheesh, I remember de-bugging the code!
kc
Ross Singer wrote:
> On 9/11/07, kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net <kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
>
>> but I'm sure that I've been around link resolvers that are at least 5 years
>> old that would take data from an article in an A&I database (even before
>> the OpenURL), look up the ISSN in the catalog using Z39.50, and parse out
>> holdings to let you know if, more or less, your library holds that in hard
>> copy.
>>
> Karen, if you can provide /any/ evidence of the reality of this
> (outside of one-off local projects like David Walker's at CSU-San
> Marcos), I will be shocked.
>
> -Ross.
>
>
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