WAYFless DOI/PMID Lookup

Background

LibKey.io remembers a user’s last organizational affiliation making it easy for users to visit the site directly at anytime when they need to quickly access a paper by DOI or PMID. However, you may also link to this facility directly from your library home page or within subject-specific pages adding new and powerful functionality to your own web pages.

The best way to do this is to use a WAYFless linking strategy so that users are automatically affiliated with your organization and do not have to pick their organization in the event that this is the first time they have used LibKey.io.

Implementation

The syntax needed to affiliate immediately to LibKey.io and perform a lookup is simply:

https://libkey.io/libraries/[LibraryID]/[DOI or PMID]

The Library ID is the same one you would be issued for BrowZine or for when using the LibKey Discovery API. If you are unsure of your ID, contact support@thirdiron.com for assistance.

These links above can be constructed manually or programatically.

LibGuides

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Do you use LibGuides? You might find it useful to see our LibGuides page about LibKey.io which is available here: LibKey.io LibGuide.

Custom Search Form

If you are using your own search form on your own site however you can use our sample code as well to construct the appropriate form. For example, you might have a multi-tab layout where you want to insert LibKey.io’s lookup function like this:

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