OpenURL Referrer 2.3.6

OpenURL Referrer enables you to insert OpenURL links in a web page.

Inserts OpenURL links in a web page using the bibliographic data available on that page.

OpenURL is a type of URL that contains resource metadata for use primarily in libraries. The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), has developed OpenURL and its data container (the ContextObject) as international ANSI standard Z39.88. On 22 June 2006, OCLC was named the maintenance agency for the standard.

The OpenURL standard is designed to support mediated linking from information resources (sources) to library services (targets). A "link resolver", or "link-server", parses the elements of an OpenURL and provides links to appropriate services as identified by a library.

A source is generally a bibliographic citation or bibliographic record used to generate an OpenURL. A target is a resource or service that helps satisfy users information needs. Examples include full-text repositories; abstracting, indexing, and citation databases; online library catalogs; and other Web resources and services.

An OpenURL consists of a base URL, which addresses the users institutional link-server, and a query-string, which contains the bibliographic data, typically in the form of key-value pairs.