EZB holding fetch (SFX Plug-In)

Tags: sfx, advanced, sfx-plugin, sfx-target
Last Updated: Oct 30, 2009 01:38

• Description

  A SFX plug-in to fetch additional electronic holdings from the Electronic Journals Library (EZB), a service offered by the University Library of Regensburg.

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• Author: Inga Overkamp
• Institution: Max Planck Society
• Year: 2008

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• License: GPL style
• Short description: Use, modification and distribution of the code are permitted provided the copyright notice, list of conditions and disclaimer appear in all related material.
• Link to terms: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

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• Skill required for using this code: advanced
• State: stable
• Programming language: Perl
• Software requirements: [SFX:none]

Service Description

The Electronic Journals Library (EZB) is a directory of scientific and academic journals, publishing full text articles on the internet. The service has been developed at the University Library of Regensburg (Germany) and enables cooperative cataloging of e-journals done by more than 480 libraries. The participating members collect and update all bibliographic title information jointly in a central database. In addition, each institution can maintain its journal subscriptions by entering local license information. The EZB provides an OpenURL interface which can be used by SFX to fetch additional holding information for a specific OpenURL request and display it in the corresponding SFX service menu.

Further reading

• Service description on project page (in German): http://vlib.mpg.de/sfx-ezb-openurl.html
• Documentation of OpenURL interface provided by the EZB (in German): http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/anwender/info_openURL.htm

Screen captures

Download

available via http://vlib.mpg.de/sfx-ezb-openurl.html

Working example

http://sfx.mpg.de/sfx_local?sid=sfx:citation&genre=article&issn=0845-5554&year=2003

Using the following Ex Libris and external API

• SFX Plug-In
• EZB OpenURL interface