Re: Question about III and EZProxy

[Doris Hendrickson <dhendric@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You'll need to edit the 856 URL's so that they begin with
your EZProxy string that sends the request through your
EZProxy server.

If you don't have too many catalog records with URL's 
pointing to restricted resources, you can probably do
this one by one.

If you have a lot, you might want to use a perl program we
wrote when we decided to load 14,000 NetLibrary records
into our catalog -- and they all needed the EZProxy
string inserted!

The program is called "marc.pl", and it's available in
a zip file along with a program "showmarc.pl" that
displays the contents of a marc file. You would download
marcEZ.ZIP.   

Although we used this for NetLibrary records, it's equally 
usable for any marc records that need to have the EZProxy 
string inserted.  You could export your records with 856's 
that need to point through EZProxy, run marc.pl, then
import your edited file of marc records. 

You can download the programs from
  http://lib.radford.edu/programs/

Good luck!
- Doris Hendrickson
  dhendric@xxxxxxxxxx

Quoting SEAMAND@xxxxxxxxxx:

> We have encountered some problems with patrons trying to connect to
> our electronic resources via our online catalog 856 fields and using
> EZProxy.  Because EZProxy puts additional information into the URL,
> that
> information is not in the URLs in our III catalog.  Therefore, patrons
> who
> try to connect to resources via the catalog are not being allowed in. 
> How do others of you using EZProxy and III handle this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> Denyse Seaman
> Baylor University Librarie
> Waco, TX
> seamand@xxxxxxxxxx
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Doris Hendrickson   dhendric@xxxxxxxxxx
Assistant University Librarian for Systems
540-831-5687    FAX: 540-831-6138
McConnell Library
Radford University 24142
540-831-5687


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