Using COinS
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Using COinS


I've found the problem using COinS in Blogger. Blogger converts a new line to a line break. That was messing up the code I copied from the COinS Generator. Here it is with breaks removed.

Recently I've been enjoying The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion. (COinS Info)

Please let me know if the COinS info is working. We don't have OpenURL at the LPI. No way for me to test it.

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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?...

- 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...

- 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...

- 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...

- Open Worldcat Or Coins
I received a good question about choosing between Amazon and Open WorldCat, "Why not use COinS?" Why not indeed? There is now a COinS generator, so it should be simple to create them. However, when I use I get not the link but all the metadata showing....



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