[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Link to Novelist

[Chauncey Montgomery]

For anyone who may be interested, I was able to make a link in our TPAC 
catalog to Novelist by adding the following link in awards.tt2:

<a 
href="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,cookie,cpid&custid=CUSTID&site=novelist-live&scope=site&direct=true&bquery=IB+[% 
attrs.isbn_clean | html %]">Connect to title in Novelist.</a>

We don't have it on our production server yet, but it is working on our 
demo server at http://sunbury-training.cool-cat.org.  I need to adjust 
the URL to go through the proxy, then we'll move it to the production 
server.

It isn't the most glamorous approach, but it does allow us to connect 
users with information in Novelist, using our basic Novelist subscription.

Enjoy.
CM

> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Chauncey Montgomery <montgoc1 at oplin.org
> <mailto:montgoc1 at oplin.org>> wrote:
>
>     We are using Evergreen 2.3.  We have a basic subscription to
>     Novelist. I would like to create a link from a record to Novelist
>     based on the ISBN or author/title of a book.  Ebscohost has posted
>     information on how to create links to Novelist at
>     http://support.ebscohost.com/__knowledge_base/detail.php?id=__1148
>     <http://support.ebscohost.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=1148> .
>
>     I would like to know if anyone in the community has linked to
>     Novelist like this?  If so, what variables are used for ISBN or
>     author/title from Evergreen that go into the link?  In other words,
>     if the link to Novelist is
>
> http://search.ebscohost.com/__login.aspx?authtype=ip,cookie,__cpid&custid=CUSTID&site=__novelist-live&scope=site&__direct=true&bquery=[$ISBN]
>
>
> <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,cookie,cpid&custid=CUSTID&site=novelist-live&scope=site&direct=true&bquery=[$ISBN]>,
>
>     what is the variable used for the ISBN in Evergreen that could be
>     inserted into $ISBN?
>
>     Thanks for any information.
>     CM
>
>     Chauncey G. Montgomery, MLIS
>     Director/Fiscal Officer
>     Community Library
>     Sunbury, Ohio
>     740-965-3901 <tel:740-965-3901>
>     montgoc1 at oplin.org <mailto:montgoc1 at oplin.org>
>