link resolver/open URL lookup button
Hi,
I'm sharing a Zotero library with some of my faculty. When I share a library in EndNote Web my link resolver/open URL lookup (Find it @ Wellesley button) shows up and can take them to the source of the full text even if the full text isn't in the database I found the citation in. This would be an invaluable feature. Could we do this in Zotero? Thanks, Neil
p.s. I'd include screenshots, but forums doesn't appear to have that ability. Count that as a forums feature request : ).
Neil A. Nero
Science Librarian for Research & Instruction
Science Library 001
Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
781-283-3021 (voice); 781-283-3651 (fax)
Semester Hours: MTRF 9-5, W 1-9
nnero@wellesley.edu
I'm sharing a Zotero library with some of my faculty. When I share a library in EndNote Web my link resolver/open URL lookup (Find it @ Wellesley button) shows up and can take them to the source of the full text even if the full text isn't in the database I found the citation in. This would be an invaluable feature. Could we do this in Zotero? Thanks, Neil
p.s. I'd include screenshots, but forums doesn't appear to have that ability. Count that as a forums feature request : ).
Neil A. Nero
Science Librarian for Research & Instruction
Science Library 001
Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
781-283-3021 (voice); 781-283-3651 (fax)
Semester Hours: MTRF 9-5, W 1-9
nnero@wellesley.edu
Here are the instructions from Geoff's excellent Zotero guide:
http://libguides.northwestern.edu/content.php?pid=68444&sid=522797
Press the Locate button for any citation to access the resolver.
Edit: I like clean, text only forums - you can just upload the picture to imageshack or so and post a link here.
Can anyone describe what it takes to create such a system? I know that many sites support it, but I don't know what the technology is called and how it happens.
I think COinS may be planned, which would allow those with LibX or other tools to resolve the links without being logged in.
I'm not quite sure how this works, but RefWorks does show specific link resolver options without requiring a user to login. I think this is based on the settings of the user that added the document to the group (Zotero's "Added By" field.)
I ask because I have a library of several thousand items I'd like this to be possible for. (This is a library for a research group that would like to publicly display a list of their research that members of the public can interact with - link to full text, export to other formats, search by author, etc. But not all items in the library have existing URLs or DOIs to go off of, and these aren't automatically hyperlinks in the zotero library anyway.)
I think doing simple link resolvers sound like a good idea, too, and I think schmidli is right - start this the same way it works in the client, i.e. with open worldcat, GS, and CrossRef.
Then explore how this can best be expanded - what DWL writes (which would have to be implemented on the Zotero site to answer schmidli's question) sounds promising, but I think requiring log-in to add customized link resolvers wouldn't be the worst thing either.