Zetoc Interfaces

As well as the Web interface, we provide the following options for machine-to-machine connections.

Z39.50

A protocol enabling search and retrieval from remote databases. As Zetoc is Z39.50 compatible, it can be cross-searched along with other compatible databases, for example by metasearch products. Z39.50 is used by many bibliographic software applications, such as EndNote, Reference Manager and BookWhere, to connect to and search databases such as Zetoc.

• Information about Z39.50 clients and connection details

OpenURL

OpenURL in its simplest form is a means to transmit metadata about a referenced resource and its context within a URL. The OpenURL standard is designed to support mediated linking from information resources (sources, or referrers) to services (targets). A link resolver, or link-server, parses the elements of an OpenURL and provides links to appropriate services. Zetoc acts both as a source, using the bibliographic citation for an article to generate an OpenURL, and it also acts as an OpenURL Link-To Resolver, allowing users, probably applications such as link-resolvers, to set up searches to Zetoc as a target using OpenURL syntax.

• Link Resolvers: linking from Zetoc to an institutional resolver
• OpenURL Link-To Resolver: accessing Zetoc as an OpenURL target

SOAP

Web Services SOAP provides another means for an application to request a search of a remote database and retrieve records in response. Zetoc has a SOAP interface, and on our site we provide a service definition, instructions for searching, information about authentication and some technical details.

• Information about the Zetoc SOAP interface

SRU

There is a Zetoc SRU server. This has been implemented with the Index Data YAZ Proxy which provides for both SRU via HTTP GET and SRU via HTTP SOAP.

• Information about the Zetoc SRU interface