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Linking Workshop

Wednesday, 3rd Apil 2019

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Introduction

• Adam Walsh• Manager, Library Services

Engineering - North, Central, East & South-East Europe

• awalsh@ebsco.com

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Agenda

• Linking Admin Overview

• Examples

• Additional Questions

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EBSCOadmin: Types of Link

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EBSCOadmin: CustomLinks I

• CustomLinks are links that allow users to go from a record in EBSCOhost or EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) to almost any other resource the library has access to.

• The primary goal of most CustomLinks is to take the user to a location where the full text for a given article, book, or document can be accessed.

• EBSCOadmin allows administrators to set the order of the Full Text links that appear on the EDS result list e.g., if you would like a specific CustomLink to appear before EBSCOhost Full Text, the order can be adjusted to display it accordingly.

• It is important to think about the order of the links for your institution because preferences do vary.

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EBSCOadmin: Customlinks II

• EBSCOhost Linked Full Text option links records in EDS to Full Text available EBSCO e-journals or CrossRef.

• EBSCOhost Full Text (PDF Full Text or HTML Full Text) provides users with access to full text that is natively available in any subscribed EBSCOhost full text database.

• EDS Partner Database and Publisher CustomLinks are links EBSCO created, often with input from the publisher or content provider.

• Full Text Finder (linkresolver) utilise OpenURL technology. This means that critical metadata elements from the record are inserted into a standard format to resolve the user to the end location of the full text of the article based on the library’s full text access/rights.

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Available in Library Collection Limiter – How Does it Work?• The Available in Library Collection Limiter returns all content

that is available to the user of the library both print and full text.

• Full Text Items are returned if they have a matching full text link that is being filtered provided via information in holdings management or system collections.

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Link Filtering – if item is in collection a system collection

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Link Filtering – Full Text Finder is

filtered using the Online Holdings Local Collection

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Online Holdings Collection is

generated from information in HLM.

There is a slight delay between

activation in HLM and rebuild of this

collection

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Ranking CustomLinks in EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) IWhen you add a new CustomLink, it is placed at the end of the list. To facilitate the management, we recommend leaving space in your sequence to allow for more CustomLinks to be added in the future, as the content in EDS expands. For example:

0 - Linked Full Text

1 – EBSCOhost Full Text (PDF Full Text or HTML Full Text)

2 – Link Resolver

3 – Publisher CustomLink

3 – Publisher CustomLink

3 - Publisher CustomLink

4 – EDS Partner Database

4 – EDS Partner Database

4 – EDS Partner Database

4 – EDS Partner Database

Note: CustomLinks can share the same ranking which will allow administers to easily insert new CustomLinks. Administrators have the ability to customize the link ranking in whichever way best supports their users’ needs.

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Streamlined approach to linking?

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Ranking Full Text Finder Links• You may want to control the order of the links on your Full Text Finder links menu to further customise access to your

collections.

• One way to improve your linking experience ensure that your most valued links are at the top of the menu. The default rank assigned by the system for non-full text target links starts at 10—any targets that are specifically full text should be using arank lower than 10. For that reason, we recommend ranking your links with a priority similar to the following:

1 – Vendor/Publisher full text article links

3 – Free/Open Access article level links

4 – Full text issue level links

6 – Free/Open Access issue level links

7 – Full text volume level links

8 – Full text journal level links

9 – Free/Open Access journal level links

Note: Links that have the same rank will display in alphabetical order.

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Link Resolver Workflow

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EDS represents three intertwined systems

EDSPublication

FinderFull-Text Finder

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Metadata Indexes

Define what is available to be

searched.

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Linking

Defines how we get there.

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HLM

Tells us what we should take you to.

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Tripathi, K.A. and Singh, S. (2018) ‘Analysis of barriers to women entrepreneurship through ISM and MICMAC: A case of Indian MSMEs’, Journal of Enterprising Communities:

People and Places in the Global Economy, 12(3), pp. 346-373, Emerald Insight. doi: 10.1108/JEC-12-2017-0101

An Example

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Check Holdings

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Check Metadata

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Two Records:1. From Scopus – A&I Record with Custom-link

2. One from Emerald – No full text link

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Check filter collection that defines in FTF should

appear

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Check the metadata

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Check the metadata – a little known trick

Insert xmlonly=Y& just after the ? in the url in the address bar

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Emerald:

<dt year="2018" month="09" day="01">

Scopus:

<dt year="2018" month="07" day="09">

Emerald (Comp Index Record):

<dt year="2018" month="09" day="01">

Publication Date still within embargo period (according

to the metadata)

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Another Example – Record Returned when no full text

access available

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<dt year="2018" month="01" day="01">2018</dt>

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ScienceDirect Data works as expected

<dt year="2018" month="07" day="10">Dec 2017</dt>

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Link Resolvers in the Wild. Google Scholar

If a site is using Full Text Finder - Linking appearing in Google Scholar is dependent on IP range which is passed to google on

the institutions at their request.

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3rd Party Link Resolvers

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Receive an export of the 3rd party resolver to create a local collection for filtering of the link.

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We use this information to filter linking inside EDS as previously noted.

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For requesting, ILL linking it is possible to set a link to appear only if an item does not appear in the collection i.e. if there is no

access.

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Sometimes, it’s just one little setting. Hide Link if Full Text was set to No.

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Thank you! Questions?

For further information please visit https://help.ebsco.com