Link Resolver Survey

Welcome to the OpenURL Link Resolver Survey. Thank you for your time and interest in this survey. It will provide us with useful information in the development of the Sakaibrary system. For information on Sakaibrary, please visit http://dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sakai/. Thank you.

User Information
Your name:
Your phone number:
Your email address:

Your organization:

Survey Questions

1. What type of link resolver do you use? Please choose one:
   • Article Linker¿ (Serials Solutions¿, Inc.)
   • EBSCO CustomLinks¿ and EBSCO SmartLinks¿ (EBSCO Publishing)
   • Journal Linker¿ (Serials Solutions¿, Inc.)
   • LinkFinderPlus¿ (Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.)
   • LinkSource¿ (EBSCO Publishing)
   • OL² ¿ (Fretwell-Downing Informatics)
   • 1Cate (Openly Informatics, Inc.)
   • OpenResolver (UKOLN)
   • SFX¿ (Ex Libris, Inc.)
   • SirsiResolver¿ (SIRSI Corporation)
   • TOUR, TDNet OpenURL Resolver (TDNet)
   • WebBridge, Millennium Access Plus (Innovative Interfaces Inc.)
   • Other - please specify: __________________________________
2. What version of your link resolver are you currently running?
3. What are the strengths of your link resolver?
4. What are the weaknesses of your link resolver?
   • in place of questions 3 & 4 could be the following question: What led you to choose your current link resolver over other link resolvers?
5. Do you use your link resolver primarily to link to electronic scholarly journal articles from various sources?
6. Do you use your link resolver to link to resources other than electronic scholarly journal articles? If so, please list the kinds of resources and their sources.
7. What linking service options do you provide to your users? (i.e. full text, table of contents, author information, inter-library loan (ILL), local catalog search...)
8. Does your link resolver support OpenURL 1.0 (the Level 1 San Antonio Community Profile)?
9. Does your link resolver support Hybrid OpenURLs (a mixture of 0.1 and 1.0 OpenURL keys)?
10. Does your link resolver support CrossRef (DOI) citation-linking?
11. Have you collected and analyzed statistics related to your link resolver? If so, please list the type of statistics collected and the goals of your statistics research.
12. Have you implemented any "smart-targeting" techniques? Smart-targeting techniques provide users of the link resolver more reliable services in an easy to manage user interface. An example of a smart-targeting technique is to place more reliable targets for full text at the top of a list of targets containing less reliable targets for full text. This would require rating the reliability of target services and then having them sorted before being presented to the user.
13. Do you have any major enhancements planned for your link resolver or for your link resolver's environment (i.e. adding ILL service option, gathering usage statistics...)?