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Assuming ADS would like to automatically show your resolver links for you by figuring out your institution using your IP. As it stands now, someone at your institution (me for all of JH) has to tell ADS the resolver settings and then individual users have to pick their institution off a dropdown once they've logged in. Christina (who works with famous planetary scientists and space physicists who use the service a lot and who just flew a spacecraft past Pluto, but not bragging yes I am). -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Xiaoming Liu Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 10:03 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Public list of Institutions and openURL servers The IP lookup functionality itself seems to be working: For example: http://www.worldcat.org/registry/lookup?IP=128.143.23.98 A specific IP address lookup failure typically indicates a data quality issue, such as the registry does not have complete or up-to-date IP address information. Xiaoming On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Accomazzi, Alberto < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Xiaoming, > > Thanks, this is useful information although it does not help us in > allowing the user to select from a list via autocomplete (which is > what we are aiming for). > > But checking the info available on the dev pages, I was reminded of > your lookup by IP address service which could help us guess the proper resolver: > > https://platform.worldcat.org/api-explorer/registryPlatformSRU/OpenURL > Resolver/LookupByIPAddress > > However, I could not get it to work with any of the IPs in our > institution, e.g. > http://www.worldcat.org/registry/lookup?IP=131.142.185.29 > > Am I doing something wrong or is the service not behaving correctly? > > Thanks, > -- Alberto > > > > > Alberto, > > The information is available through OCLC's institution registry API > > if > you > > happen to know the library's registry id, such as: > > > > > http://www.worldcat.org/webservices/registry/enhancedContent/Instituti > ons/3003 > > It has XML fragment like: > > <resolverRegistryEntry><resolver> > > <BassURL>http://jt8rt5xt7v.search.serialssolutions.com/</baseURL> > > <OpenURLVersions><OpenURL_0.1/></OpenURLVersions> > > <vendor>serialsSolutions</vendor> > > .... > > I think the official document about this feature is at: > > > > > http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/web-services/worldcat-registry/s > ruxsd-interface/organization-resource.en.html > > Xiaoming > > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Accomazzi, Alberto < > > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Is there a (somewhat complete) list of the OpenURL servers out there? > We > > > maintain a short list based on the information we have collected > > > from electronic resource librarians who took the time to contact > > > us, but I > > would > > > think that OCLC or code4lib could do a much better job at it. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > -- Alberto > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Dr. Alberto Accomazzi > > > Program Manager > > > NASA Astrophysics Data System - http://ads.harvard.edu > > > Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - > http://www.cfa.harvard.edu > > > 60 Garden St, MS 83, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA > > > >