A great deal of heat has been vented in this thread, and at least a little light. I'd like to invite everyone to contribute to the wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL in the hopes that it evolves into a better overview of the protocol, the ecosystem and their place on th web. [Hint: the best heading for a rant wikipedia is 'criticisms' but you'll still need to reference the key points. Links into this thread count as references, if you can't find anything else.] cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository