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COinS test

Posted by: William Denton, 30 January 2008 8:05 pm
Categories: Administration,Books

I’m using the Firefox extensions LIbX and OpenURL Referrer now, and they’re great. I’m going to try adding COinS data when I mention a book or article. LibX will turn the ISBNs into live links to a library search. It uses xISBN! OpenURL Referrer will give you some kind of extra button that will do a library search.

  • FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed by Robert Maxwell (ISBN 9780838909508)
  • Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval Tools by Arlene Taylor (ISBN 9781591585091)

What that looks like to me:

Screenshot showing LibX and OpenURL effects

4 Comments »

  1. William, I get a big Discover UIUC Full Text link in the same place. I’ve been doing the same myself for a while now via Zotero; will have to have a look at what you’re doing. Workflow is a major pain for me in getting the metadata and getting it into the post but I do my best. I put in COinS from Zotero and try to link to WorldCat when I can.

    Thanks for filling the FRBR niche so well, by the way.

    Best.

    Comment by Mark — 30 January 2008 @ 10:09 pm

  2. I’m going to use http://generator.ocoins.info/ and paste in the chunk of HTML by hand. Thanks for the report that it works!

    Comment by William Denton — 30 January 2008 @ 10:18 pm

  3. Many thanks for actually putting COinS in your posts. It’s pretty cool to do the lookup in seconds, not least since it tells me that we actually have Maxwell’s book, safely hidden in our technical services area!

    Comment by DaleA — 4 February 2008 @ 12:33 pm

  4. [...] mentioned that LibX uses DOIs (Document Object Identifiers) and Bill showed us how LibX also uses COinS to create active links in web [...]

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