[Koha] Quick Poll: Who uses COiNS/ OpenURL in the opac search results?

[Elaine Bradtke]

We also encourage our patrons to use Zotero.  Personally I use it
(Zotero) myself, constantly, for my other job.
Elaine
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know that academic libraries point out to their patrons that there
> is Zotero integration (much smoother than the Refworks or Endnote way
> of doing things). If we were to remove it it should be a preference
> for people to turn on because having Zotero integration is a big deal
> to research libraries (and to me personally).
>
> Nicole
>
> 2011/3/25 Ian Walls <ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com>:
>> Community,
>>
>>
>> Did you know that Koha automatically parses the bibliographic records it
>> returns with a search, and gives you a COiNS/OpenURL/Z39.88 span that
>> bibliographic utilities can pick up on?  I did, but I've never had call to
>> use it.
>>
>> Does anyone out there make use of this feature, or teach their patrons to?
>>
>> I ask, because it's a very expensive feature, resource-wise, and if it's not
>> commonly used, it may be best to be something we enable/disable with a
>> system preference.
>>
>> I've filed a bug report for this
>> (http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5957), and will be
>> working on a patch, if the community feels this is worth the effort.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> -Ian
>>
>> --
>> Ian Walls
>> Lead Development Specialist
>> ByWater Solutions
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>> ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com
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>>
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