What is SFX?
SFX is a software that attempts to connect you to information on where the item might be available, whether it be online or on the shelf at Earlham. When you see the SFX symbol next to a citation, follow it to a display of links to other databases where the article is available, and to the Earlham Libraries Catalog, which will search for a print copy in our collections.
SFX is the original, award-winning context-sensitive link server from Ex Libris. SFX allows context-sensitive linking between Web resources in the scholarly information environment. OpenURL-compliant, SFX accepts an OpenURL as input from an information resource, which is referred to as an SFX source. An SFX server facilitates the management of a library’s interlinked electronic collection by providing libraries with an independent means of seamlessly interconnecting their ever-increasing collections of heterogeneous resources. Because SFX allows libraries to define the links between information resources, the resources become fully integrated in the overall library service no matter who hosts them- the library itself or external information providers. The SFX solution offers libraries flexibility and choice. Reference librarians can choose appropriate content from a range of information vendors, interconnect this content as desired, and then provide links to “appropriate” services for
