Direct linking based upon linking level
We are using “direct linking”, which is great when you arrive at the desired article, but some students find it confusing when a direct link takes them to the journal level (for example), instead of to the article level.
It would be great if the direct linking logic could take into account the “linking level” from the Alma electronic collection.
A library could then, for example, choose to enable direct linking for linking levels of "issue", “article DOI” or "article", but not of it is “journal” or “volume”.
A descriptive note could then be added to a collection’s Full Text service "Public note” in Alma and displayed under the journal or volume level link. Such a note could describe how to “drill down” to the article in the collection.
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The September 2017 release new includes configuration options to disable direct linking for journal OpenURLs. See here for more details: