Activate Ulrich's target

Check Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory to see if the journal is scholarly or not.

The original target parser ULRICH.pm doesn't work with all ISSNs, especially for journals that experienced ISSN changes. This is an example, Chronicle [0195-5365]. Based on the original parser, Cari Roberts, Systems Librarian at University of Central Oklahoma created a new parser, ULRICHUCO.pm, which seemed to solve this problem.

This linking service to UlrichsWeb has been further developed by Steven Putt, Electronic Services Librarian at Calvin College. UlrichsWeb can be automatically queried and if an entry for that journal is found within UlrichsWeb the selected data from that database is automatically displayed in SFX menu. This is an example.

Please see this project conducted at Calvin College. To realize this function, there are 3 prerequisites:

• Perl installed on a local web server, with LWP::Simple and CGI Modules (These are pretty common modules, but if you run into problems later on, you are on your own for getting these installed).
• Access to a local web server
• Access to your SFX server

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