SFX, Information Needs, the Academic Library, and Its User.

The article explores the benefits brought by Ex Libris' SFX, an OpenURL link resolver, to libraries with diverse electronic resources. Link resolvers like SFX offer links from one information resource to another like when users jump from a citation in abstracting source to the target resource that includes full-text articles, online catalogs and interlibrary loans among others. In terms of assessing or satisfying user information needs, Nicholas and Herman said it could be instrumental in addressing the six types of functions that reflects the information needs of library users. The author says that SFX is the solution libraries need in the advent of digital content.