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SFX
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What is SFX? SFX
is all about linking.
Students used to working
on the Web expect to be able to easily link from one information
resource to another.
Although much of a library's collection is in electronic
form, and is accessed via the Web, library information resources
act independently from each other. For instance, when a
student finds a journal article in an article database,
she has to do another separate search in the catalog to
see if the library has the journal in which the article
is published.
SFX allows users to seamlessly link between electronic
resources.
Now when a student finds a journal article in a database,
she can click on the SFX button to bring up links to all
the places the article is available in the library's collections.
Not only will SFX show the holdings of the paper copy of
the journal in the library catalog, but it might also find
several electronic databases with full-text versions of
the article and a site on the open Internet with a copy
of the article. SFX allows the library to direct the user
to the most appropriate copy of the resource, in particular
letting the user know about resources they might not have
otherwise considered.
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