[Wactclc-primo] Jan 15, 2019 meeting notes and recording

[Guidry, Wade]

Thanks for that head's up, Elena.

And most importantly, glad you got your Ebscohost link outs configured. Good job!

(URLs can be pretty sensitive to special characters and character encoding. Sometimes it helps to paste a URL into something like Notepad, to help "clean" the string of encoding that might happen in a more complex program like outlook or Word. And then copy/paste from Notepad into the final destination.)


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Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager
Big Bend Community College
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509.760.4474
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I just updated our Ebscohost with the query string from Highline (with DOI) and it works great.

One thing to note, though: when I first submitted it in Ebsco Admin, I got an error message telling me that there was a blank space somewhere, and it would not allow me to save my changes. I had to call Ebsco support. I sent their technician the very same URL and query string that I had pasted in, and once he entered it, it worked. I double-checked, and was able, after that, to go in and edit the settings without a problem. So, not sure if that was an issue with the way I copied/pasted or what, but something to be aware of when you try this.

Elena Bianco, Systems & Technical Services Librarian
Skagit Valley College
2405 E. College Way
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
(360)416-7624

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Subject: [Wactclc-alma] Jan 15, 2019 meeting notes and recording

Meeting notes and recording posted here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hB3YdBFzLutcadV60ssRR_K64gH74kc7r0l8hq02y1c/edit?usp=sharing

Also, just FYI (and included in the notes), Naoko at Highline found Ebsco's documentation for setting up a parameters for OpenURL configuration.

That document is located at:

https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/How-do-I-update-my-existing-URLs-for-Full-Text-Finder?language=en_US

Ebsco's recommended OpenURL string looks like:

So we now have 3 potential OpenURL parameter strings for Ebsco:

The community-sourced version from Alma-L
The version Naoko worked out through her SF case
The Ebsco-documented version

All 3 are in the meeting notes, and I'm sure all 3 can do the trick.

Please post any feedback to our lists regarding which you find works best.

My recommendation to start would be to use Naoko's original version, with the addition of the DOI:

genre={GENRE}&issn={ISSN}&title={JOURNAL}&volume={VOLUME}&issue={ISSUE}&date={DATE}&atitle={TITLE}&spage={STRTPAGE}&sid={SID}&author={LastName({AUTHOR})}&id=DOI:{DOI}


Wade Guidry
Library Consortium Services Manager, WACTCLC
wadeg at bigbend.edu<mailto:wadeg at bigbend.edu>
(509) 760-4474
http://www.wactclc.org



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