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Target Services for Scholars Portal Resources and Services
Each OCUL school has a target in the shared SFX_LOCAL instance which in turn has
several target services defined for it. These target services provide access to
Ontario Scholars Portal resources and services (e.g. E-Journals, RefWorks, RACER)
The name of the target will be OSP_YOURSCHOOL (e.g. OSP_YORK, OSP_TRENT). The
associated target services are described below.
OSP_YOURSCHOOL::getFullTxt
Applies to E-Journals @ Scholars Portal
This service will generate a link to the Bibliographic Page for articles in ScienceServer. There is an object lookup threshold so the link will only show for journals that are in the Object Portfolio for the service. The journals in the portfolio represent all the journals that you have rights to in ScienceServer (both meta-data only and full-text). Each journal has a date range appropriate for your library based on which backfiles you have purchased.
OSP_YOURSCHOOL::getAbstract
Applies to E-Journals @ Scholars Portal
This service does essentially the same as getFullText. We had originally planned for getFullText to point to the PDF version of the article, but the complications of metadata only journals and other issues made us modify the getFullText service to point to the Bibliographic Page, which is what getAbstract also does. The portfolio associated with this service is the same as the portfolio used for getFullText. You'll probably want to turn this one off.
OSP_YOURSCHOOL::getTOC
Applies to E-Journals @ Scholars Portal
Given an ISSN, this service will generate a link to the table of content page for the associated journal. It is what you see when selecting a title from the A-Z list. It could also be useful to you if you want to use OpenURL links in your catalogue records for titles in Scholars Portal. You will probably want to use display logic to supress this (and other getTOC services) in your menus, however, whenever there is a getFullText service available for the request.
OSP_YOURSCHOOL::getDocumentDelivery
Applies to RACER @ Scholars Portal
This service creates a link that invokes the RACER ILL request form, passing all the citation data from the OpenURL to the form so that it is "pre-populated". A user must supply a valid VDX username and password before submitting the request. The service currently sends these requests to the VDX Test Database, so you can test it without worrying about cluttering up the live VDX database. You will probably want to turn this target off when you go live until your ILL office is ready to begin receiving ILL requests through this mechanism. Some sites who don't use VDX yet will definitely want this deactivated until they get migrated to VDX.
OSP_YOURSCHOOL::getReference
Applies to RefWorks @ Scholars Portal
This service will create a "Direct Export" link from SFX to the OCUL RefWorks server, allowing a user to move citation data from the SFX menu to his/her personal RefWorks account. This would probably be a useful option in all cases, regardless of whether or not full-text is available, so I expect most sites will want to leave this one on. However, if your site isn't planning on promoting RefWorks right away, then you may choose to turn this one off too. In any case, there is no need to activate the RefWorks target in your local instance.
Other targets we are working on include one that will take advantage of various capabilites of the OCUL Web of Knowledge Server. We'll send out more information on these as we begin migrating the OCUL libraries to this server from the Thomson ISI server. You may want to activate the ISI target in your local instance in the meantime since it will work with the Thomson server which (with the exception of Brock) you are all using.
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