Like many libraries we have felt the pain of budget cuts. In our library this usually means cuts in the development budget, especially the print journals. This means that the print periodical collection for our library is a bit strange. Looking in our catalog a user can find strange runs of journals with breaks in coverage that coincide with budget shortfalls.
This leads to confusion for users of not only the catalog, but also the SFX link resolver. SFX needs limits of coverage in order to direct users to print full text. To do this for print titles for the library would not only require massive amounts of exported coverage data to be uploaded to the SFX KB, but would be limited for titles that have split dates of coverage.
In early 2010 a plugin was developed to integrate the Innovative or Voyager ILS with SFX so that coverage data for print journals is used in the display logic for SFX. The Chameleon plugin creates a TARGET in SFX
that uses a PARSE PARAM
url=http://voyager.lib.umb.edu/ & use_isbn_OR=$$USE_ISBN_OR &version=Voyager7
altering the Z39.50 query of the Voyager catalog so that it searches holding data and displays a link to holdings if the citation in question is owned in print.
Otherwise the Interlibrary Loan request link is displayed.
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