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What does the OpenURL Router do?
openurl.ac.uk is the home of the OpenURL Router
The OpenURL Router is sponsored by the JISC and administered by EDINA in association with UKOLN. The Router is provided to all HE and FE institutions in the UK, with the aim of
- Helping institutions with OpenURL Resolvers to establish OpenURL links from a wider range of services.
- Enabling providers of OpenURL aware services to link to the appropriate OpenURL Resolver for each of their end users.
- Extending the range of services in which OpenURL links can usefully be deployed.
The OpenURL Router works by offering a central registry of institutions' OpenURL resolvers. An institution registers details of its resolver just once, at openurl.ac.uk. When the resolver has been registered at openurl.ac.uk, any service provider can provide users from that institution with OpenURL links to their resolver.
