ABSTRACT
One of the significant advantages of ETDs over printed theses is the ability to incorporate active web links in ETDs. OpenURL technology amplifies this advantage by increasing the power of these web links. Already, an OpenURLaware ETD may offer the following features:
1. Link each citation in the bibliography to a menu of services appropriate to the citation and to the reader of the ETD. For example, a citation to a journal article might be linked to:
The full text of the article (if the reader has licensed access to the full text)
Document-fulfillment services that the reader is allowed to use Online catalogs of libraries appropriate to the reader Abstracting and indexing services in which the article may be cited
and where the reader may find additional related literature. 2. Increase the longevity of the links by decreasing the reliance on static
URLs, using metadata to describe the cited works instead.
