SFX Staff Guide
SFX Sources and Targets

Sources

Sources are the places (mostly databases) where the SFX link/button will appear. Some vendors allow our customized SFX button, some allow only the generic SFX button, and some vendors allow text links. Clicking on these links/buttons will bring up the SFX menu in a new window.

MIT-customized SFX button:

MIT custom text link: Get this article

Generic SFX button:

We will begin our implementation with the following sources:

(To see a list of all of our SFX Source Databases, check this link in Vera:
http://libraries.mit.edu/sfx-sources )

Source Database	Status as of 5/30/03	Vendor allows:
CSA	live	custom button, no text link
EBSCO	live
FirstSearch	live	generic button, text link
ISI: Web of Science	live	generic button, no text link
PubMed	live	custom button, no text link
Silver Platter/Ovid	live	text link only
WilsonWeb	live	an icon of a box with a tiny page and arrow

Barton and DSpace may be implemented as sources in a future stage of the project. They are already targets.

To see a list of all databases that can be SFX sources (those that are open-URL enabled), see ExLibris's list of SFX Sources.

Targets

A target is an e-journal, database package, or other electronic resource that can be linked to from the SFX menu. Most of our online journals will be made available as SFX targets soon after they appear in Vera.

Due to the differences in how publishers set up their web sites, some journals can be linked to at the article level, while others can only be linked to at the journal, volume or issue level. To see what level a particular journal can be linked to, see: SFX Targets.

Note the following:

**** article-level linking
*** issue-level linking
** volume-level linking
* journal-level linking
† article level linking through CrossRef/DOI