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April 2001

SwetsnetNavigator implements SFX

Another publisher picks up the Open URL / SFX standard for linking disparate electronic resources.

SwetsnetNavigator launches SFX functionality

Swets Blackwell is pleased to announce the launch of SFX functionality in SwetsnetNavigator, their electronic journal service.  SFX technology provides libraries with a fully inter-linked environment, whereby heterogeneous scholarly information resources are seamlessly linked via the OpenURL protocol.

By using the SFX functionality in SwetsnetNavigator, users can link to other resources and always arrive at the appropriate copy of the article.  This technology provides institutions with many more possibilities for integrating the various resources that are used by the end-users.

Patrick Hochstenbach of Ghent University, the beta tester for the SFX functionality, commented: "Now that SwetsnetNavigator includes SFX links in the user interface, our end users are presented with links to our own SFX server while searching or browsing through journals. Because the SFX links in SwetsnetNavigator are not predefined we can add or delete services whenever we like."

Geert Visscher, CEO of Swets Blackwell, added: "Users now have the option of linking out from SwetsnetNavigator just as easily as they can link in.  With this powerful new linking strategy, together with our multi-level linking technology, SwetsnetNavigator is paving the way for libraries to integrate their services."

SwetsnetNavigator offers online access to nearly two million full-text articles, as well as abstracts and tables of contents from 17,000 journals. Due to the steady increase of titles available in the service, SwetsnetNavigator has seen a 50% growth in searches over the last 3 months alone.  The service receives 5.5 million clicks per month, which lead to 550,000 hits on TOCs, abstracts and full-texts. Find our more by visiting www.swetsnetnavigator.com

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