1. www.scholinfo.com Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd consultants in scholarly publishing This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 LicenceCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Licence Link Resolvers and the Serials Supply Chain

2. www.scholinfo.com Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd consultants in scholarly publishing The OpenURL standard

3. www.scholinfo.com Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd consultants in scholarly publishing How OpenURL linking works A&I databasePublisher site Article/chapter Journal issue Title homepage KB OpenURL Link-to Syntax Link Resolvers Service Menu ? ?

4. www.scholinfo.com Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd consultants in scholarly publishing UKSG-funded study See: www.uksg.org/resolvers.aspwww.uksg.org/resolvers.asp Tenders invited in July 2006 Work underway mid-September Final report due end January 2007 Approach: interviews with stakeholders in the supply chain What is the current data flow? What is not working well? What action is needed? And from whom? Short-term/practical focus

5. www.scholinfo.com Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd consultants in scholarly publishing Current knowledge base data flow Publishers/Content Hosts Subscription Agents Link Resolver Vendor* Master KB Vendor Hosted Resolver Library Hosted Resolver Library Content packages Pull Push Pull Push Internal Library Systems Holdings / subs files Requested by library or either Requested by library * There are a number of resolver vendors building their own proprietary KBs for the market DRAFT

6. www.scholinfo.com Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd consultants in scholarly publishing (Some) knowledge base issues Poor quality data from publishers/content hosts Variations in acquired content packages Lack of awareness of data need/purpose Frequency of KB updates Lack of adherence to a common standard for supply of holdings data Lack of inbound URL linking standard …new problems and manual effort as a result of uptake of resolver technology by libraries

7. www.scholinfo.com Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd consultants in scholarly publishing Relevance of information standards No conclusions yet! But… Potential of ONIX for holdings/title data? Machine-to-machine harvesting of ONIX files? Identifiers for content packages? Lessons from COUNTER? A visible benchmark, raising general awareness Potential for codes of practice for content providers and others in the supply chain