SFX (software)

SFX link resolver is a company Ex Libris Group. Since it is the first link resolver, SFX is also sometimes used as a synonym for link resolver. As an argument in favor as a link resolver SFX, the large knowledge base of Ex Libris applies. This provides many services that offer full texts or information about their availability, as pre-defined goals.

In addition, SFX offers more features for managing journal licenses.

Example

About the Library Portal do research while you're sitting in the library, in a bibliography. There you will find a reference to an article in the journal " Computers & Libraries". As the University Library to this journal has a license to electronic full- text, a direct link to the full text is when you the SFX button presses in addition to the evidence offered. Would you do the same from home, this link would not be offered, as it does not have there the right to access the journal.

Technical Background

SFX processed using openURL passed information and provides a URL to the document. The main application is the linking of the electronic library catalog to the corresponding full texts, if the library in question has a license for that.

A link goes from a database ( the source ) using a particular service on a different database ( the target ). Sources can in this case be the already -mentioned electronic library catalogs, databases as well as tables of contents and other bibliographic databases. Targets represent document server and linkable full-text databases

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