Newsline from EDINA
March 2004: Volume 9, Issue 1
GetRef is the name given to the shared service that has been developed as part of the Xgrain project. This JISC 5/99 project, which was part of JOIN-UP, focused on the design and implementation of software to carry out cross-searching of Abstract and Indexing (A&I) and Table of Contents (eToC) databases.
GetRef has an easy-to-use interface, intended to prompt students and staff to make use of the A&I databases licensed for them by their libraries. University and college libraries can opt to provide GetRef as part of their institutional library portals, via Z39.50, or as a direct end user service. There are a variety of options to allow 'look and feel' branding and other configuration.
GetRef provides OpenURL links to institutional resolvers, such as SFX and LinkFinderPlus.
A GetRef web site is in production which will contain background information to the service and details of how to subscribe. To discuss access to a demonstration version of GetRef, please contact edina@ed.ac.uk.