Re: [IUG] WebBridge linking problems to JSTOR

[Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>]

At 02:47 PM 5/17/2011, Dawn Stephen wrote:
> More information on this problem would probably be helpful. The 
> error message I get from JSTOR is:
>
>
>    We're Sorry
>
> JSTOR could not retrieve the requested item because the link 
> contains an error. Please select "Search" at the top of the screen 
> to find the item by entering the title, author, or other information.
> . . .
> SICI matched no articles
> The SICI was 0022-3816(1988)50:02<390:>2.0.CO;2-J


SICIs have to be precise in order to work, and creating one from the 
metadata in OpenURLs which are prone to doing their own thing is a 
recipe for not working.  I think you'll find that if you change the 
issue component of the SICI above from 02 to 2, the SICI link will 
work.  You could use a regex in your spage field selector to strip 
out a leading zero, but there might be times when the leading zero is 
required.  Better to change your link syntax to what Keven suggested, 
or to the one we use:

http://www.jstor.org/openurl?issn=# at ISSN#&date=# at YEAR#&volume=# at VOLUME#&issue=# at ISSUE#&spage=# at SPAGE#&sid=whatever


Bob Duncan


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duncanr at lafayette dot edu
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