Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Static Urls in Voyager Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian, Reference & Information Division

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Static Urls in Voyager What is a static url? Strathclyde web services – use of static urls Benefits / Problem areas How to construct static urls

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian What is a Static Url? Based on an existing search url Carries out predefined searches dynamically – also referred to as canned searches or canned urls Not to be confused with open urls as used by LinkFinder or SFX

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Link to Holdings Electronic database providers can link search results to your catalogue records Libraries provide their system’s static url for ISSN searching Help! – try Supportweb –Voyager-L archives –resource sharing record for canned searches

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Link to Holdings on WOS –searches all journal records, print and electronic holdings

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Electronic Journals – web or catalogue? From 2002 ej records only on Voyager– enhanced with subject headings, publishers Subject ejournal pages created from catalogue lists – time-consuming, frequent updating required A-Z web listing was no longer available

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Electronic Journals – static urls Alphabetical A-Z list – Departmental subject listings Services and providers -

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Ejournal Web Pages accesses

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian More static urls activated Special Collections – lists for all our named collections named collections Theses – Departmental lists Exam Papers – Departmental or Class specific lists

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Subject Web PagesSubject Web Pages at Strathclyde Ejournal lists Theses – Departmental lists Exam Papers – Departmental lists Exam Papers – searchable form by class code

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Future possibilities Reading Lists - Departmental, Lecturer, Class specific lists Children’s literature themes Company reports – by sector or country

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Benefits of using static urls Easy for users Saves time for library staff Increases awareness of library stock Departmental web pages or VLEs

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Possible Problem Areas Dependent on library’s predefined search indexes and display parameters Voyager upgrades may be a problem Url may not copy/paste correctly into Dreamweaver – add as html code

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian InstructionsInstructions for creating static urls Remove &PID= Remove &SEQ= Add &DB=local (DB in uppercase) Remove &HIST=1

Gill Morris, Electronic Services Librarian Web Link: PowerPoint Presentation Instructions for Strathclyde static urls