CitationLinker and Fetch Item

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For advanced information on the CitationLinker, refer to the SFX Advanced User’s Guide.

The CitationLinker, a simplified version of the OpenURL Generator, is a tool designed for end users. It takes input specified by an end user, a reference librarian, or an interlibrary loan librarian, and creates an OpenURL that is sent to the SFX server.

As a result, users see an SFX menu created from their input, rather than an SFX menu created using an external source such as an abstracting and indexing database.

There are two versions of the CitationLinker – a new version called Fetch Item and the original CitationLinker.

Fetch Item

CitationLinker

The CitationLinker is located at:

http://server_name:port/instance_name/cgi/core/citation-linker.cgi

The Fetch Item is located at:

http://server_name:port/instance_name/fetchitem

A drop-down list is displayed in Citation Linker that allows you to specify whether the search is for a result that starts with the text entered, an exact match of the text entered, or contains the text entered. Exact searches for CJK titles behave like a Starts With search for titles longer than 42 characters. This is because title search keys for CJK characters are limited to 255 characters (where each CJK character after normalization requires 6 characters).

For information concerning configuring Kanji variant title searching for SFX, see Country and Language Settings.

Click the Cookie Policy link at the bottom of CitationLinker to display a description of the SFX Privacy Policy and how Ex Libris uses cookies.

Customizing CitationLinker

The following instructions are relevant for the original CitationLinker. For instructions on configuring the new Fetch Item utility, see Configuring the Journal Search, A-Z List, and Fetch Item.

The default appearance of the CitationLinker is pre-designed by Ex Libris. You can point to the CitationLinker as is, apply your own look and feel to the existing CitationLinker pages, or incorporate the CitationLinker forms into the pages that reside on your library’s Web server.

The CitationLinker consists of:

Five HTML template pages, one of which references a CSS file. These HTML pages are located at:

exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/<instance_name>/templates/citation

The CSS file is located at:

exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/<instance_name>/templates/css/public/style.css

The CSS file is also used by the SFX menu template files.

The following are the names of the HTML pages:
- Article.tmpl
- Book.tmpl
- Journal.tmpl
- head.tmpl
- tail.tmpl
Ex Libris-provided .gif files. These are located at:

exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/<instance_name>/templates/img/citation
The citation-linker.cgi program. This is located at:

exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/<instance_name>/cgi/core

CitationLinker for Mobile Devices

The CitationLinker has the same functionality when viewed on a mobile device.

Mobile CitationLinker

CitationLinker Images and Templates

Images for the CitationLinker mobile version (including the header image) can be localized at the following location:

/exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/<instance>/templates/img/mobile/

The following are the header image and template locations and file names:

Citationlinker title image located on the left side of the screen:

/exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/<instance>/templates/img/mobile/logo_citation_linker.png

Recommended image size: 238 pixels width, 52 pixels height
SFX logo image on the right side of the screen:

/exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/<instance>/templates/img/mobile/logo_sfx.png

Recommended image size: 213 pixels width, 52 pixels height
Templates for the CitationLinker mobile version:

/exlibris/sfx_ver/sfx4_1/<instance>/templates/citation/mobile