EDS allows you to rank order your links. If you prefer, for example, that the patron has access to a pdf version rather than an html version of an article you can change the ranking so that the pdf link should come up rather than the html.

Thanks to everyone who has responded. It looks like most have chosen the single link option.

Marcella Lesher

Professor/Periodicals Librarian

Blume Library

St. Mary’s University

One Camino Santa Maria

San Antonio, TX 78228

Phone: 210-431-2299 ext. 1322

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Boissy, Robert, Springer US
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 12:58 PM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: [SERIALST] Single link option for Discovery Services

“Show First Available FullText Link Only” strikes me as nicely lean and the least likely to cause user confusion on any web-scale discovery service, but is there always an accompanying setting that indicates preference for what that first link is likely to be? From one Summon user I heard that their system does allow preference in links (publisher direct, aggregator database, print resource, A&I service, etc). But I am not sure EBSCO Discovery has the same kind of information resource category preference settings. And for the other systems like Primo Central and WorldCat I am not sure.

Robert W Boissy

Manager of Account Development and Strategic Alliances

Springer

+1-781-244-7918

Robert.Boissy@Springer.Com

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Larrison, Stephanie A
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 12:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Single link option for Discovery Services

Hi Buddy,

If you mean whether we have “Show First Available FullText Link Only” checked in the Linking settings in EBSCOAdmin, then yes, we do. If the link does not work or the patron clicks on it a second time, then the LinkSource menu will appear for the other access options. I have not received any complaints since activating that option.

Stephanie Larrison

Electronic Resources Librarian

Texas State University

601 University Dr.

San Marcos, TX 78666

512-245-8613

larrison@txstate.edu

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Pennington, Buddy D.
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:24 AM
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We use Summon from ProQuest as our discovery tool. We provide a single link to full-text.

Buddy Pennington

Director of Collections and Access Management

University of Missouri--Kansas City

308 Miller Nichols Library

800 East 51st St.

Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

penningtonb@umkc.edu

816-235-1548

UMKC Libraries

From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Lesher, Marcella
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:08 AM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: [SERIALST] Single link option for Discovery Services

We’ve just implemented EBSCO Discovery Service and are now doing some fine tuning. I’d like to know if your libraries have chosen to use a single link option to full text or are you providing multiple links to full text?

Thank you,