Article Citation Linking Debuts
October 27, 2003: Library users now see a new feature in many of the UNC libraries article databases. The libraries have installed Article Linker, a reference linking product that provides improved integration of its electronic resources. This form of linking may allow users to link directly from an article citation to the full text of the article that is referenced - even when the database itself does not provide full text for the journal.
Specifically, a blue icon of the Old Well with "Find Article @ UNC" now appears next to the citation in selected indexes or databases. For some less flexible vendor databases, only hyperlinked text appears as determined by the vendor. Both of these will link the user to a secondary window with options such as full text in available databases, a link to search the online catalog for the print version, and - if the libraries do not own either of those - interlibrary loan. When the full text is available electronically, the link takes the user directly either to the journal or, in many cases, the specific article.
Article Linker is now in use with many of the UNC libraries databases. Article Linker is currently used with databases from the following vendors: ABC-CLIO (for example, Historical Abstracts); Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (for example, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts); EBSCO (for example, Academic Search Elite); and ProQuest (for example, ABI/Inform Global). Other vendors and databases will be added over the course of this semester.
