Distributed Systems

OpenURL demonstrator

This page provides a quick demonstration of OpenURLs and how they can be resolved in a context sensitive way.

1. First, select a resolver using one of the icons below:

   	OpenResolver (demo), UKOLN, University of Bath
   	SFX (demo), Ex Libris
   	ZBLSA, EDINA, University of Edinburgh
   	1cate (University of Derby installation), Openly Informatics
   	GODOT, COPPUL (a consortium of western canadian university libraries)
   	Vlink, an OpenURL link generator from VUBIS

2. Then select a button on the right hand-side to see how the example OpenURLs are resolved.

OpenURL information

• NISO Committee AX - Development of an OpenURL Standard
• OpenURL bibliography
• OpenURL overview by Ex Libris

International information gateway collaboration: report of the first IMesh Framework Workshop
Lorcan Dempsey, Tracy Gardner, Michael Day and Titia van der Werf - December 1999.
D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 12.

Information gateways: collaboration on content.
Rachel Heery - April 2000.
Online Information Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 40-45.

Information Landscapes for a Learning Society: Networking and the Future of Libraries 3
Sally Criddle (Editor), Lorcan Dempsey (Editor), Richard Heseltine (Editor) - May 1999
Library Association Publishing; ISBN: 185604310X