Library Cataloging
COinS Tool
The COinS Browser Extensions for Your Library can autogenerate bookmarklets and greasemonkey scripts for sending embedded COinS to your local resolver.
Below is a form for finding bookmarklets and greasemonkey scripts to support COinS links at a number of institutions. All of the data you can search for comes from the OCLC OpenURL Resolver Registry, from which OCLC has kindly provided a subset for this page as an experiment.
COinS
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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 Browser Extensions For Your Library
COinS Browser Extensions for Your Library provides a handy list to add this tool to your desktop. COinS...
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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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American Memory Coins-pmh Enabled Via Greasemonkey
Dan on his dchud's work log describes the American Memory COinS-PMH Enabled via Greasemonkey.Tonight I found Simon Willison's greasemonkey script that "fixes" American Memory to look better in various ways. It gave me the idea that the very suggestion...
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