OpenURL

• metadata, identifier or locator forms a ‘citation’ for the resource

• OpenURL provides mechanism for encoding citation for a resource as a URL

• OpenURL = baseURL + description

• baseURL provides location of a ‘resolver’

• description is either a global identifier (e.g. a DOI or ISBN) or a description (a citation) or mixture

• http://sfx.bath.ac.uk/sfxmenu?genre=book&isbn=1234-5678

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