All instances of OneSearch across CUNY now feature a shortcut to the full text (or streaming content). From the search results page, clicking the green “Available Online” link will open a new tab that takes you to the content itself. Clicking on the item title in the search results page will continue to open up a display of the full item record.
In an email to the Library UX Committee today, Allie Verbovetskaya, the University Director of Library Systems at the CUNY Office of Library Services, added important additional information about this new feature:
If there are multiple full text options for a record, the system chooses the first one on the list of links in the “View Online” section. The list of links is ordered: the E-Resource Management Committee ensures that resources with dependable, item-level links are near the top and resources with poor linking (looking at you, Lexis Nexis!) appear near the bottom of the list.
There are some exceptions to this behavior:
(1) When the record’s services contain a note, the “Available online” link won’t open the full text but will, instead, take patrons to the full record display in OneSearch. The notes provide additional information (e.g., “This is an open access title and full text may not always be available” or “This link will take you to a search box in Nexis Uni where you can run searches for articles from this source”) that we want the user to review because it may impact their experience in the target database.
(2) Records for journals (not articles) will aways open the full record display in OneSearch (and not take the user to the full text) because there may be multiple options with various coverage dates—and we want the user to decide which link works best for them.
As an example of exception (1), look at how this search results page for Oxford World’s Classics: Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War offers an “Available Online” link that takes you to the full item record instead of the full text because there is a note in our record on the database link alerting users that the ebook is limited to one concurrent user.