ZBLSA

• ZBLSA has now been superceded by GetCopy.
• Introductory presentation given at the JISC Creating Environments for Learning conference on 3 December 2002
• If you have any further queries, please email Sandy.Shaw@ed.ac.uk (project manager) or Tim.Stickland@ed.ac.uk (lead engineer).

Project Aim

To develop a linking tool that provides portals with the means to locate services pertaining to journals. ZBLSA connects discovery of a reference to a journal article with services providing the most appropriate full-text copy in printed or electronic form.

The main client communities of ZBLSA are the A&I database services that operate at the JISC datacentres and the RDN subject portals. They will use ZBLSA to locate services on journal articles whose existence has been discovered in other ways.

Project objectives

• Develop a prototype ZBLSA server, serving one or more datacentre portals and subject portals
• Extend access to location information in OPACs and union catalogues via Z39.50
• Develop an HTTP demonstrator that provides end-users with direct access to ZBLSA services
• Identify suitable electronic resources, including linkage to full texts at publishers' sites
• Produce technical documentation to enable portal designer to integrate portal operation with ZBLSA