by
decembre
To any library with an electronic collection of any significance, the Open URL link resolver has (or should) become an indispensable service for helping its users retrieve full text from citations. Although they are a relatively new technology (in library terms, at any rate), link resolvers arguably have become as important as the OPAC; they locate articles from A & I databases, strengthen the role of interlibrary loan, and enable metasearch. Since they are the glue that binds many disparate services together, link resolvers are quite difficult to shop for. To define what a good link resolver should be or should do is not unlike nailing JELL-O to the wall. There is an
openurl
resolveur
bib
bibliotheque
bibliotheque2.0
library2.0
service
ressource
reference
etude
analyse
outil
tool
information
documentation
recherche
rechercher
lecteur