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COinS Browser Extensions for Your Library
COinS Browser Extensions for Your Library provides a handy list to add this tool to your desktop.
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Coins At Wikipedia
Wikipedia has recently stopped using COinS. There have been many complaints (e.g. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19262) that articles take too long to render. For articles with many citations, the obvious low-hanging fruit is COINS metadata....
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Oclc Coins Generator
For many years OCLC NJ hosted a COinS generator. Just plug in a Pub Med ID or DOI and out came a COinS. I found it handy. Sadly it has been taken down. Anyone know of a substitute for this service?...
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Coins Generator
It seems the COinS Generator is not working, at least when given a DOI it returns the target not a Content Object in Spans. Is there no alternative tool? I couldn't find one. If that is the case, is it because COinS is pretty useless and no one bothered...
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Coins In Open Worldcat
OCLC in now using COinS in Open WorldCat.OCLC has added COinS to its Open WorldCat Web pages. COinS, or Context Objects in Spans, is a standardized way to invisibly embed bibliographic metadata into a Web page's HTML, using the OpenURL metadata. This...
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Open Worldcat Supports Coins
Open WorldCat now supports ContentObjects in Spans (COinS).On March 12, 2006 OCLC added COinS to its Open WorldCat web pages. COinS is an acronym that stands for Context Objects in Spans, which represent a standardized way to embed citation metadata into...
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