• What is Vlink TU/e?
• How does Vlink TU/e work?
• Search engines and Vlink
• How to use Vlink TU/e
• Which services are provided via Vlink TU/e?
• Why does the number of options in the Vlink menu vary?
• Why does my article not include a link to the full text?
• Why are there sometimes multiple links to the full text?
• The Get Full Text link leads only to the publisher's website
• My Vlink TU/e
• In which retrieval systems can I use Vlink TU/e?
• Who may use Vlink TU/e?

Vlink is software which can link various retrieval systems and library services to one another. Various context-sensitive links may be provided via Vlink, like for example:

• a link to the full text of an article
• search for related information
• find out more about the publication or the author
• submit a request for document delivery directly

The available links are displayed in a menu screen.

Vlink is based on the OpenURL (version 0.1), a NISO standard. Vlink is a product belonging to the VubisSmart library system, in the development of which the TU/e Library participates. Vlink TU/e has been chosen as a name when Vlink is used inside the TU/e and within retrieval systems and library services offered by the TU/e Library.

The Vlink TU/e button activates the link generator and opens a menu screen displaying context-sensitive links. For example: a link to the electronic version of a journal article is displayed only if the Library subscribes to the electronic edition of the journal. A link to a citation index or to information about the author will be displayed also. If the article is not in the TU/e Library collection, the bibliographic data will be copied to a form in order to submit a request for delivery of the article from elsewhere.

If a URL resolver has not yet been entered in a search engine, this may still be done by entering the base url. For Vlink this is: http://library.tue.nl/csp/vlink/VlinkMenu.CSP

• One or several links the the electronic full text, depending on the providers from which the TU/e has acquired a license to the electronic edition(s).
  This option is displayed only if the full text is available via the TU/e Library
• A link to our catalogue, to check if we have the book, journal etc. you are looking for in print.
• A link to so-called citation databases, to trace other publications by the same authors.
• Links to the Google Internet search engine, to search by the author's name or by the title
• A direct link to the document delivery system. Requests may be submitted here to have publications not available in the TU/e Library collection delivered from elsewhere.

If you click the Vlink TU/e button, the system will check which relevant links and services are available for the citation you have selected. Which these are depends on the type of publication, i.e. books, journal articles, conference proceedings, films etc.

Books
A book title will include links to Internet booksellers like Amazon. You may however also obtain further data about the publication itself or about the author.

Articles
Entries for journal articles will include links to the electronic full text, if available. If an article is available only in print, the place to find it will be shown. Links to citation indexes are provided. And you can continue your search for information about the author on the Internet. If the article is not in the TU/e Library collection, the bibliographic data may be copied to a form with which you can submit a request for delivery of the article from elsewhere (document delivery).

A link to the full text is available only if the TU/e Library is subscribed to the electronic edition of the journal, or at least to the volume/issue desired.

The TU/e Library has access to the electronic editions of some journals via various providers. In those cases therefore there will be links to more than one resource.

I clicked the Get Full Text link, but got no further than the publisher's or provider's homepage

• The structure of the publisher's or provider's website does not permit linking at article level. In such a case Vlink will try to bring you as close to the full-text article as possible, for example to the journal issue's table of contents.
• Sometimes the database from which you have accessed Vlink TU/e is not able to provide the full citation data to Vlink TU/e. As the full citation data are not available to Vlink TU/e, direct linking at article level will not be possible. In such a case you will have to navigate the publisher's or supplier's website yourself to retrieve the full text.

The 'My Vlink TU/e' button opens a screen in which you can select a language, Dutch or English.
The 'LookUp' button provides options for adjusting the search query and altering the type of publications desired.
Use the 'Feedback' button to send us your comments, let us know about any problems or make suggestions for improvements.

Vlink TU/e is now available for the following retrieval systems:

• EconLit
• Google Scholar
• Iconda
• Inspec
• MathSciNet
• Netherlands Central Catalogue NCC
• Philosopher's Index
• PiCarta
• PsycINFO
• SciFinder Scholar
• Scopus
• TU/e Library Catalogue

As access to electronic journals and retrieval systems is usually subject to license conditions, IP addresses are checked. TU/e staff members and students who log into the TU/e network, or who use the Proxy Server, have full access. Others have access only to freely accessible information.