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What happen in cases where no resolver is found?
If a user's institution cannot be identified from IP address or via supplied parameters such as UK federation scope, the Router will display a list of know institutions from which they the user can select. If the institution does not appear in the list, then that institution does not have a registered resolver.
When an institution does not have a resolver registered at openurl.ac.uk, then the Router will give the end user a choice of open access resolvers. These currently include GetCopy at EDINA.
If you use registry lookups, flexible options are available for unrecognised users. You can choose to provide links to a default resolver of your choice, or to provide no links at all. If you were not able to provide a UK federation scope in your lookup request, you could offer the user an OpenURL link to openurl.ac.uk: the Router may be able to find the resolver via cookies previously set by that user, and if not it will offer them a choice of free access resolvers.
