Enterprise Abstraction

Get at CISTI - Google Scholar

Google Scholar now sports a new "Get at CISTI" link to allow the purchase of documents via CISTI Discover for anyone using scholar.google.ca, or accessing Google Scholar from Canada.  The link only appears where the particular document is available from CISTI's collection of course.

The first few links of this query provide some examples - and Richard provides some suitable examples in his posting on SLP.

UPDATE (March 2, 2009):  Apparently it's available beyond Canada.

UPDATE (March 4, 2009):  The update is incorrect it seems - yea, just it's just in Canada.  If you find out otherwise, let me know please?

LibraryFind SRU Example

I've been playing a little with LibraryFind, a free and open source Federated Search.  The project is very active - and seems to have gone a very long way to filling the gaping hole in this area.  Z39.50 support seems well established:  It took just minutes after install to get the application running with several library catalogues - including CISTI's.  However, SRU support is currently restricted to MarcXML, with Dublin Core on the way (I need MODS!). It also does Open Search and OAI-PMH - but I've not played much with those aspects.

Anyone interested in using or demonstrating the SRU functionality may be interested in the following configuration information - as I had a difficult time to get a working example of SRU running... mainly due to the aformentioned lack of support for MODS:

Name: sru_loc
Alt name: Willamette Dspace SRU
Conn type: sru
Host: http://libmedia.willamette.edu/SRW/search/dspace
User:
Pass:
Record schema: marcxml
Definition:  ti=245;ti=130;au=100;au=110;au=700;au=710;callnum=099;callnum=090;callnu
m=086;callnum=050;ass_num=907b7;note=500;pub=260b;date=260c;subject=650;
subject=651;static=856u
Isword: 0
Url:
Mat type: Article
Virtual:
Vendor url: http://libmedia.willamette.edu/
Bib attr:
Proxy: 0
Harvested:
Is parent: 0

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