Swets link resolver
Excuse my cluelessness ... but when did jobbers get in on the ERM software wagon?
Swets Launches SwetsWise Linker
September 29, 2004
Swets Information Services, the leading global subscription and information services company, announced today that it has launched SwetsWise Linker as part of its far-reaching e-journals management drive. SwetsWise Linker is an OpenURL link resolver providing users with a cohesive search environment for over 9,000 e-journals and 500 e-journal aggregators and secondary databases.
SwetsWise Linker enables libraries to integrate all of their electronic holdings resources in one intuitive and customizable interface, providing seamless linking from one article�s bibliographic information to another�s full text. Based on Openly Informatics� proven 1Cate technology (1 Click Access to Everything), SwetsWise Linker dramatically reduces the number of steps needed to move from one resource to another.
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Comments
This isn't all that surprising. If a library uses SwetsNet/SwetsWise to handle their print subscriptions and e-journal subscriptions, Swets already has the body of information that's most important to making an OpenURL resolver work well: The "knowledgebase"--the database that says, for a given ISSN or title, how it can be obtained for that library.
So for such a library, buying the resolver or leasing the resolver service from Swets sounds plausible: Most of the hard work has already been done. Since 1Cate is mostly an OEM product (that is, mostly gets used under other vendors' names), that also makes sense.
For some libraries. I think.
Posted by: Walt Crawford | October 6, 2004 03:21 PM
When you say "some libraries," do you mean those who basically get 85-90% or more of their serials via Swets? That does make sense, but when I consider multiple vendors or non-jobber acquired serials, it makes me wonder.
Plus, I wonder what the take of ILS vendors are on this development. Hmmm ...
Thank you for responding, Walt; it seems less strange now.
Posted by: misseli | October 7, 2004 11:11 AM