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Dragonfly
Spring 2003 -- Volume 34, Number 2 |
by Susan Barnes, Resource Sharing Coordinator
NN/LM Pacific Northwest Region
In the first sections of this series we discussed ways to make the most of the free full text in NLM's PubMed Central through searching the PMC site, through searching PubMed and limiting retrieval to PMC journals, and through using your library's LinkOut icon. LinkOut can also be used to point to even more free full text: HighWire Press is a LinkOut provider, and HighWire Press also provides open access to back issues of several of its titles. The list of titles from which free full text is available is linked from the HighWire Press home page at http://highwire.stanford.edu:
You can use your library's LinkOut icon to point your patrons to
this free full text. It's a good way to extend LinkOut for easy
access to more ejournal content, while providing even more
publicity for your library. Using your own institution's icon as
a pointer reinforces your library's visibility and minimizes
unnecessary interlibrary loan and Loansome Doc requests. If you
are already using LinkOut to provide one-click access from PubMed
to articles in ejournals for which subscription fees are paid,
you can make life even easier for your users by using your
library's icon to connect to articles that have full text
available from HighWire Press. Your users, who have grown used to
clicking on their library's LinkOut icons, can then find
themselves led to even more articles through using their
already-established habits.
HighWire Press, as a LinkOut journal provider, has all of its titles listed in your LinkOut Holdings Utility. All you need to do is enter your library's holdings for HighWire titles in the same way you have entered your holdings from other ejournal publishers or vendors. In this case, select titles that you do not receive from HighWire or any other source. (Remember, LinkOut will only recognize one provider per journal per library.) Next, select the range of years for which open access is provided. Your icon will then appear with PubMed citations-in the Abstract and Citation displays-from those HighWire titles (in addition to any HighWire titles to which you subscribe).
To begin, look at the list of HighWire titles for which free full text is available and make note of which titles to register in your LinkOut holdings:
Then, log in to the LinkOut Holdings Utility, choose HighWire Press from the full text provider list, select the titles for which you want your icon to display. Use the delay box to record the time that elapses before open access becomes available:
In this example, the library's icon will display with PubMed citations from Academic Medicine and Age and ageing after the delay periods expire.
Other articles in this series:
Dragonfly, Spring 2003 - Volume 34 Number 2
(posted on PNRNews on June 24, 2003)
This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.
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