Can I register my institutions OpenURL resolver as part of its Registry profile?
Yes. Your OpenURL resolver(s) provide an important link between discovery interfaces and the delivery of full text, abstracts and other electronic content to which your institution is subscribed. Registering the IP address or range of your resolver helps improve end users’ linking experience from WorldCat.org and other WorldCat partner sites, which get library services in front of more people on the open Web. It allows the vendors, consortial partners and other third parties with whom you share your WorldCat Registry profile to quickly reference this information. And an academic library can also point student and faculty users to its Registry profile to obtain resolver addresses when the users are not working on the campus network. Resolver addresses in your Registry profile are accessed automatically by web services associated with WorldCat.org and the ERIC Web site for no additional charge. Your patrons can then use these sites and link directly to your most appropriate local copy, s