Configure OpenURL

Configure OpenURL request buttons in WorldCat Discovery

Set up your base OpenURL and enable Request Buttons to direct your patrons to WorldShare ILL when placing ILL requests.

Set up your base OpenURL

For more information about OpenURL Resolvers, see Manage Resolvers.

Navigate to the OpenURL Resolvers > Manage Resolvers module of the OCLC Service Configuration.
Click Create Resolver.
In the Base URL field, enter your base WorldShare ILL OpenURL:
- https://yourregistryid.account.worldcat.org/account/route/wsill/openurl?
  Note: Your URL must include https and the ? appearing at the end of the URL.
- If your library uses EZproxy, prepend the EZproxy information: https://yourezproxybaseurl/login?url=https://yourregistryid.account.worldcat.org/account/route/wsill/openurl?
Enter a Resolver Name that indicates this is for your WorldShare ILL OpenURL.
- This text will only appear to authenticated patrons using WorldCat.org.
Click Submit.

Enable Request Buttons

For more information, see Place Hold/Request Buttons.

For libraries using WorldCat Discovery, enable the Request Button.

Navigate to the WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Local > Place Hold/Request Buttons module of the OCLC Service Configuration.
Locate the Resource Sharing (Any Level) section.
Configure the fields below:
- Resource Sharing Button Label: enter the text to appear on the WorldShare ILL request button in WorldCat Discovery
  - For best display, keep this label under 40 characters.
- Type of button configuration: select OpenURL 1.0
- Choose an OpenURL Resolver from the OpenURL Resolvers you have already registered with OCLC: select the WorldShare ILL OpenURL resolver previously configured.
Under the For items owned by WorldCat Libraries section, determine which item types should display the OpenURL request button in WorldCat Discovery.
- If you do not want patrons to be able to place an ILL request for a particular item type, select None.
Click Save Changes at the bottom of the screen.

Tips on giving your base URL to other providers

If you need to update OpenURLs that display in your various databases or if you use other discovery interfaces, you will need to make those changes within those providers' platforms.

Contact your discovery layer or database support and supply them with the WorldShare ILL Base OpenURL:

https://yourregistryid.account.worldcat.org/account/route/wsill/openurl?

If there is a Custom Links or OpenURL field in the discovery layer's administrative interfaces, you may need to enter your WorldShare ILL Base OpenURL here.

OpenURL parameter mapping

Genres are used to select the default service type.

Genre	Default Service type
article	Copy
book	Loan
bookitem	Copy
conference	Loan
dissertation	Loan
document	Loan
ebook	Loan
issue	Copy
journal	Copy
preprint	Loan
proceeding	Loan
report	Loan
thesis	Loan
no genre	Loan

OpenURL parameters

Workform field name	OpenURL 0.1	OpenURL 1.0 (Z39.88-2004)
Article Title/Chapter Title	atitle	rft.atitle
Author/Article Author	aufirst auinit auinit1 auinitm aulast	rft.aufirst rft.auinit rft.auinit1 rft.auinitm rft.aulast rft.ausuffix rft.au rft.aucorp
Date	date	rft.date
DOI	id=doi:	id=doi:
Edition (text)	edition	rft.edition
Format	genre	rft.genre
ISBN	isbn	rft.isbn
ISSN	issn	rft.issn
Issue	issue	rft.issue
OCLC#	N/A	rft.oclcnum rft_id=info.oclcnum/
Page Numbers	pages spage epage	rft.pages rft.spage rft.epage
Place of Publication	N/A	rft.place
PMID	id=pmid:	N/A
Publisher	N/A	rft.pub
Title/Journal Title	stitle title	rft.jtitle rft.btitle rft.stitle rft.title
Where did you learn about this item?*	sid	rfr_id
Volume	volume	rft.volume

*The value of sid/rfr_id will not display to the user in the workform. This data is stored and will be visible to library staff in the request Verification field in WorldShare ILL. If the user enters a value in the Where did you learn about this item? field, this data will also be visible to staff in the Verification field.