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Linking via the OpenURL Router
It is only necessary for you to set up links via the OpenURL Router to cater for services that do not use the Router automatically or as their default setting. At the present time this could represent most of your services. Configuring links to use the Router is worthwhile, because if you change your resolver URL in the future (software updates, firewall/proxy server changes, domain name changes, switching port numbers, etc.) you will then only have to alter the configuration at the OpenURL Router, with immediate effect for all your services.
URL for OpenURL links
Use this as the base URL for links
http://openurl.ac.uk/ukfed:SCOPE
In place of SCOPE use your UK federation scope (the string resembling a domain that you used when you registered your resolver; if you registered more than one UK federation scope, you can use any one of them here).
URL for button/link image
Where a service allows you to specify a button/link image, use this
http://openurl.ac.uk/button/ukfed:SCOPE
In place of SCOPE use your UK federation scope (the string resembling a domain that you used when you registered your resolver; if you registered more than one UK federation scope, you can use any one of them here).
Backwards compatibility for Athens
Old links using the 'athens' parameter in place of the 'scope' parameter above will continue to work, so no changes to existing links made in this manner will be necessary.
