By design, context-sensitive linking using the OpenURL standard helps in the pursuit of this goal. Defined as a standard for transferring scholarly metadata, OpenURL helps solve the problem of appropriate copies. OpenURL also helps libraries automatically identify best possible links and so best direct users.

To make context-sensitive linking a success, cooperation is required between libraries, content providers and parties providing link resolvers. Buy-in is also required from providers of search engines as they are increasingly used by researchers searching for fulltext articles. By allowing integration with OpenURL, search engines make it easy for users to access fulltext with a few clicks if entitled.

For OpenURL integration to be a success, an institution’s link resolver settings must be supported and Scirus offers the following two methods to achieve this. The method selected depends on a particular institution’s link resolver settings.

1. Image-based linking offers entitled users fulltext icons alongside search results.
2. Non-image-based linking offers entitled users a link resolver logo or text links to the fulltext.

Regardless of method, non-entitled users see links to instructions on where to find the fulltext of desired articles.

Partnering is the key

Recently Elsevier unveiled Scirus Library Partners, a program allowing libraries to facilitate integration of their e-holdings with Scirus search results by taking advantage of the OpenURL standard.

By using the OpenURL standard for transferring metadata of online journals, Scirus Library Partners automatically cross-references Scirus search results with library holdings of the institution with which a user is affiliated, resulting in the automatic display of links where the fulltext is accessible.

To take advantage of the Scirus Library Partners program and link an OpenURL resolver into Scirus search results, a library just needs to follow the simple steps listed at the URL below. Anyone requiring help to set up OpenURL integration with Scirus can contact feedback@scirus.com.

www.scirus.com/srsapp/librarypartners

Helen Gainford of Elsevier’s Global Rights Department answers questions relating to rights and permission.

Helen Gainford

Q: Does Elsevier allow self-archiving?

A: An academic author publishing an article in an Elsevier journal has the right to post her or his accepted manuscript on the author’s personal website and university website. Following are details about this policy.

1. The author may post the final accepted manuscript version (in Word or a similar program) of the article. We ask that the author not download and post the article’s published version (in PDF or HTML) as it appears on ScienceDirect. To preserve the official record of publication, the final published version as it appears in an Elsevier-published journal will remain available only on ScienceDirect.
2. In each posting, the author needs to include the article’s Digital Object Identifier. The DOI can be found on the article on ScienceDirect.
3. In each posting, the author needs to acknowledge the published version as follows: “This article was published in Publication Title, Volume Number, Author(s), Article Title, Page Numbers, Copyright Elsevier (or society name), (Year), DOI.” As articles are published on ScienceDirect as rapidly as possible, versions of the article may be on ScienceDirect before the journal volume and page numbers are assigned. Until the full citation is available, the DOI is sufficient. After the full citation is available, the DOI must still be included.
4. The right to post a paper doesn’t extend to putting it on third-party websites or to any commercial uses (including posting it on corporate websites).

www.elsevier.com/librarians/policies

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