(INFLIBNET Centre, 2006-02-02) Bist, Rajender Singh; Mohanty, V Patnaik
The libraries have adapted themselves to a new challenge of information integration and
presentation in order to enhance access to the widely dispersed and distributed electronic
information and publications. The open URL standard is a breakthrough for achieving the
means to integrate electronic resources of the library. Open URL mechanism transports
metadata of electronic resources from one resource to another and provides dynamic links
from metadata to full content of the resource described by the metadata. This paper
describes the concept underlying the Open URL mechanism, explains the Open URL
structure and the link resolvers as the linking component for the resource integration in the
libraries.