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What can the OpenURL Router do for you?
The OpenURL Router is intended to let you provide OpenURL links to the appropriate resolver for any user in the UK HE and FE community, without requiring you to implement or maintain lookup tables to hold any of this information. The Router is funded on behalf of the user community by the JISC and is free of charge to all service providers.
The Router provides a registry of UK HE and FE resolvers, populated and maintained by the resolver administrators. Because the information is held in one location, this reduces the effort required to your customers to establish OpenURL links from your service, and gives them the helpdesk service provided by EDINA. The helpdesk service is of course also available to service providers who employ the Router for their OpenURL linking.
The quickest and easiest implementation is to simply use the Router as the base URL for all OpenURL requests, and rely on it to redirect each user to the appropriate resolver. Alternatively you can look up the resolver details held in the Router registry, and use these to create OpenURL links direct from your service to the appropriate resolver.
