Enable MARC 856 external links
When an item is available online in open source full text, we'd like them to be able to have access to it via the catalog record.
Aaron Smith
shared this idea
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Andrew Teeple
commented
This is still very much needed! We have a number of e-resources in our collection for which we rely on bib records rather than an API connection like OverDrive. For these resources, we want the 856 field (or a hotlink from the URL in the 856) to display in Vega Mobile so patrons can tap on that link and be taken to the resource on their phone/tablet. This seems like a vital necessity with the increasing number of patrons who use the mobile interface.
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Aaron Smith
commented
More and more patrons depend on their mobile devices to handle their entire workloads. The availability of full text via catalog links is really the only way our users can be directed to public domain monograph content offsite.