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Creating stable links to e-journal articles by hand (Blackboard / OpenURL /...
It can be maddeningly difficult to create stable, persistent, reliable links to articles in e-journals from Blackboard. Links copied from publishers’ websites sometimes don’t include all the...
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I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about electronic resources which make it difficult or impossible to create reliable deep-ish links to a particular bit of the resource from Library websites (usually our...
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Reading lists problem with unnecessarily encoded e-book URLs in Horizon:...
There’s a problem with a small number of e-book URLs in our library catalogue (held in MARC records, field 856$u, for some—but not all—e-books from Coutts MyiLibrary). For complex historical reasons,...
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Ebook URLs: bodge upon bodge upon bodge
From the Oxford English Dictionary: † bodge, v. Etymology: An altered form of botch v.1; compare grudge < grutch. Obs. or dial. 1. trans. To patch or mend clumsily. Chris Leach and I have had to...
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