OpenURL (Content Connection) support for multiple genres (books and articles) available now

The Content Connection page (openURL, Article Linker) now supports openURLs for multiple genres. This means that you will be getting different pages for books and articles. This happens because there are some searches such as ISSN that only work for articles in journals (which have ISSNs) and not for books (which have ISBNs).

You should see journal citations returning pages with ISSN searches. All other genres (books, proceedings, disserations, chapters) should lack an ISSN search in the catalogs (Homer, Helix, Advocat).

This is not fool proof. If you see any of the following:

• You have a journal article citation but there is not ISSN search available for the catalogs.
• You have a book citation (or other non-journal type) and there is an ISSN search.

or anything else that's odd on the Content Connection page, please send me the openURL (URL from the Content Connection page) the fullest record that you can get from the database which is the source of the citation used by the OpenURL. I'll contact Serials Solutions with the information so that they can work to fix this.

I will poll you all in a week and aks if you think that we should turn genre support off. This means that books would not be searchable in the catalogs because they would be doing periodical title searches.

Thanks.

[posted on behalf of Deb Holmes-Wong, dhwong@usc.edu]