The URL Clearinghouse is a set of instructions for creating URLs to vendor-mediated databases and e-journals licensed by libraries and other information providers. These are the URLs that librarians maintain in OPACs, Web sites, databases, course pages, guides, etc. The Clearinghouse focuses on URLs that point to databases and e-journals at the title level. Where discovered on a vendor's site, the option to create deep links at the article level and other deep levels is noted but no instructions are included. The Clearinghouse focuses on vendors that offer multiple titles, e.g., OCLC with its FirstSearch databases, Ingenta with its Ingenta Select e-journals. Few e-books or other electronic texts are included at this time, although some of the vendors featured in the Clearinghouse offer such items. [Laura B. Cohen - Network Services Librarian/Webmaster - University at Albany]
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