Inserting URLs into Bibliographic and Course Records

You can edit records to enter URLs into the y-tagged MARC 856 field of bibliographic and course records.

Specialized URL Setup

Inserting URLs into course records requires special setup. Contact Innovative to add this functionality to your system.
See INN-Reach URLs for Locally Held Resources for specifying URLs using different MARC field tags on INN-Reach systems.

When WebPAC user encounters a record with a URL, the system offers a link to connect to the resource. Subfield u of the MARC 856 field contains the URL. In Sierra 6.1 and later, the system also supports persistent identifiers in subfield g and treats them the same as subfield u.

The DISPLAY_856 option specifies which subfield to use for the link text and how links open in a browser. If you do not specify a subfield for the link text (or if the subfield is not present in the 856 field), WebPAC displays the URL or persistent identifier itself (from subfield u or subfield g) as the link text.

For example, if your library uses subfield z to specify the link text, WebPAC uses the following subfield pairs to generate links:

|u[URL]|z[Text displayed in the WebPAC]

|g[URL]|z[Text displayed in the WebPAC]

If an 856 field contains multiple u or g subfields, the system displays each subfield as a separate link. This is an example of an 856 field and the resulting HTML in the WebPAC:

<a href='http://www.ebay.com'>Z Subfield 1 </a>
<a href='http://www.ebscohost.com'>:Z Subfield 2 </a>
<a href='http://www.iii.com'>:Z Subfield 3 </a>

If multiple 856 fields occur in a record, the specified subfields from all of them are offered as links.

Additionally, you can modify the title text for the table for 856 links using the LINK856TEXT option. This is the text "Connect to" in the example below:

Linking to Articles

By default, the WebPAC does not display links to articles specified in the 856 or 962 fields of a record. To allow direct links to articles in your WebPAC, set the ENABLE_DIRECT_ARTICLE_LINK Web option.