We have been able to use Gale's InfoMark feature to successfully link to
series titles.  Here's an example of our link to the title you mention:
http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/infomark.do?type=aboutBook&prodId=GVRL&eisbn=9781558627680&version=1.0&userGroupName=[ourusername]&source=gale

...Linda

Linda Wobbe/ Head, Collection Management/ Saint Mary's College Library/
PO Box 4290/ 1928 Saint Mary's Road/ Moraga, CA 94575-4290/
ph(925)631-4232; fx(925)376-6097

On 1/6/12 12:05 PM, Judith Nagata wrote:
> We have canceled our Gale Virtual Reference Library subscription to
> the International Directory of Company Histories mostly due to low
> usage. However, the access issue noted here was another major
> drawback. And, we also struggled with the vendor on billing issues.  I
> am reluctant to look at any other GVRL series until some of this gets
> resolved.
> Judith M. Nagata
> Serials/Electronic Resources Librarian
> Harrisburg Area Community College
> Library Central Services
> One HACC Dr.
> Harrisburg, PA 17110
> Ph: 717-221-1300, x 1624
>
>
> >>> "Pennington, Buddy D." <penningtonb@UMKC.EDU> 12/12/2011 6:29 PM >>>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering if anyone has gotten any reasonable answers from Gale
> as to why they cannot provide title-level URLs for their online
> series. For example, we have Business Plans Handbook volumes 1-17. And
> we have 17 separate URLs for this title.
>
> Currently, we are using one bibliographic record with a separate 856
> field for each volume. This does not scale forward, as you can
> imagine. We could use Serials Solutions, but they also treat each
> volume as a separate book record. So we would end up with 17 separate
> bib records in this case. This is also a problem unless a library
> decides to limit access to just the current few volumes.
>
> Or I suppose we could link to just the GVRL interface. What are other
> libraries doing?
>
> Seems like treating these as serials would be much easier in terms of
> user access. Has anyone heard whether Gale is planning on doing
> anything about this?
>
> Buddy Pennington
>
> Director of Collections and Access Management
>
> University of Missouri - Kansas City
>
> 304 Miller Nichols Library
>
> 800 East 51^st Street
>
> Kansas City, MO  64110
>
> 816-235-1548
>
> 816-333-5584 (fax)
>
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