Hook-to-Holdings for Third-Party Services Scenario

To allow third-party indexing and abstracting services to create a “hook-to-holdings” to your library database, you must provide them with the URL that represents your library system or a search on your library system. (Hook-to-holdings is the idea of letting external sources access holdings in your library database and view them.)

Companies such as EBSCO or Books in Print should have software that lets their system know that a user is entering their web site from your library system. If so, you could create your URL and give the URL to EBSCO or Books in Print for them to link users back to your local library system. Here is an example URL to allow hook-to-holdings:

http://205.10.10.10:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?index=ISBN&term=

The indexing or abstracting service could use this URL to let users perform a search in Information Portal. The service could take this URL and then add the ISBN or ISSN number to the end of this URL, based on the item that the user clicks on while searching in the service. Here is an example URL with its ISSN term from the service:

http://205.10.10.10:8080/ipac20/ipac.jsp?index=ISBN&term=0007-7135

In this example, the index variable equals the ISBN because in this particular library system, both the ISBN and ISSN are indexed in the same ISBN index.

 


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