Friday, May 1, 2009

Last Thing # 10 Open URL

I struggled a bit with this last Thing.I had no problem with Google Scholar or the Pollak Library Find It. Both worked well at finding the information I was looking for. The Citation finder was great at finding the individual article and copying and pasting it was no trouble but getting it to work was a problem.

When I changed the pieces of information in Citation Finder and clicked on it a "No Results Found" came up and a form to fill out to correct any errors. This tells me it is a good idea to know what you are looking for.

I can see where this open URL is a great asset to teachers and Librarians where they can post the Citation of the actual article they want the students to study.

Without Mikey's help I could not have got this Citation to work. It is not easy if you do not have knowledge of how these links are supposed to work. Thanks to Mikey's patience I now know how to post and have the Citation Link work. I chose something awkward instead of something easy. I don't think people are interested in the carbon effect on global warming so I posted something I enjoyed and hope you will too.


Nature 457.7231 (2009):794.

http://sfx.calstate.edu:9003/fullerton?ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&ctx_id=10_1&ctx_tim=2009-5-04T10%3A40%3A22PDT&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsfxit.com%3Acitation&rft.date=2009-02-12&rft.genre=article&rft.issn=0028-0836&rft.issue=7231&rft.spage=794&rft.volume=457&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Aarticle&sfx.title_search=contains&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&url_ver=Z39.88-2004