So, to follow up on my previous post about article linking, here’s what we did with our 360 Link pages.
Here’s what our users will see when we do have the article online. (Click to view a larger size.)
Here’s what our users will see when we don’t have the article online. We were limited in how we could link to our print holdings, as you can see below. (Click to view a larger size.)
And here’s what our users will see when they find a book mentioned in one of our databases. We don’t track our electronic book holdings in Serials Solutions (but we do have MARC records for them), so this search should always produce a “failure” (in terms of Serials Solutions logic). However, this is how we’ve framed it for our users:
I have to admit that I am a little disappointed in the limitations of 360 Link’s “results page” customization (the above pictures are a few examples of “results pages”). I would have liked it if we could make these changes ourselves, and I would have liked it if we had a bit more control over the layout – as you can see, there are unnecessary blocks of white space, and we have little control over the size of different headings (which is a bit frustrating for me – my inner designer is very, very keen on using consistent sizes and styles of headings in order to help clarify the organization of content).
That said, the guy my coworker Jeff and I spoke with (Chris at Serials Solutions) was very helpful and happy to work with us to make these changes. Also, I have heard that Serials Solutions has an API that customers can work with to customize these pages (I have not seen or played with the API yet, unfortunately).