Link to works using a bibliographic record ID

Third-party vendors, such as Wowbrary and Communico, may use bibliographic record IDs from your catalog to generate links to your Vega Discovery system. If a third-party library product requires a bib ID to link to materials in your catalog, you can provide a URL template to the vendor.

When a bib ID is specified in the URL, it links to the work that the bib ID rolls up to, and the format tab of the particular edition will be selected when the page loads.

Note

Libraries that use the Sierra ILS should not add a prefix of 'b' or a check digit value to the bib ID used in the URL.

Link structure

To create a link to a work, the third-party vendor must use the following structure:

https://<vega_base_url>/search/card?recordId=<ILS_bib_ID>

Example

At New York Public Library, the Vega Discover base URL is https://nypl.na2.iiivega.com. Therefore, a link to the bib ID 22060331 looks like this:

https://nypl.na2.iiivega.com/search/card?recordId=22060331