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

Thu Jan 17 12:59:37 PST 2019

This is what EBSCO provided us, and it seems to be working well, although it might help to add doi and pmid:

genre={IfNotEmpty({ISBN},bookitem,article)}&{IfNotEmpty({ISBN},isbn={ISBN},issn={ISSN})}&title={IfNotEmpty({book},{book},{IfNotEmpty({journal},{journal},{IfNotEmpty({seriestitle},{seriestitle},{IfNotEmpty({dissertation},{dissertation},{title})})})})}&volume={VOLUME}&issue={ISSUE}&date={DATE}&atitle={TITLE}&spage={strtpage}&pages={pages}&sid=EBSCO:{database}&au={IfNotEmpty({bookauthor},{bookauthor},{AUTHOR})

Most of the failures I've seen- for all of our resources- are due to bad/changes in ISSNs.
I'm not sure if having a good doi or pmid would help in these instances or not.

A related caveat to keep in mind with dois is that some countries allow inclusion of special characters, which can break a url.
This is a rare occurence, but it happens.

v/r,

saint-jean

Saint-Jean Devereux
Library & Archive Para 2
Ray Howard Library [Z53 / WAUHMN]

Shoreline Community College
www.library.shoreline.edu  |  206.546.6962
Pronouns: he, him / they, them

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Thanks for the update, Amy.

When you get a chance, please post your Ebsco openurl string to the list.

I’d like to capture it in the meeting notes for future reference.

And, just like there are lots of ways to search a library catalog to find the same citation, there are lots of ways to construct an openurl citation to find the same citation through a link resolver.

So, lots of variations on openurls will work. It’s mostly a matter of finding ones that work well for the majority of your collections. And seems like the variations we’ve seen so far all work pretty well.

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My attention was split yesterday so I am thankful for the recording. Figured out my ProQuest links were still using SFX and the custom Alma link I’d created was based on the old Primo! Got it all sorted.  However our Ebsco custom parameters don’t look like any of the suggested ones (it’s MUCH longer) and I don’t know where it came from, but it’s working just fine as is so I don’t really want to touch it!

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Subject: [External] RE: [Wactclc-primo] Jan 15, 2019 meeting notes and recording

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

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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

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