A great deal of heat has been vented in this thread, and at least a
little light.
I'd like to invite everyone to contribute to the wikipedia page at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL in the hopes that it evolves into a
better overview of the protocol, the ecosystem and their place on th web.
[Hint: the best heading for a rant wikipedia is 'criticisms' but you'll
still need to reference the key points. Links into this thread count as
references, if you can't find anything else.]
cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository
