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What is SFX?
Oct 4 2006, 2:27 AM EDT | Post edited: Oct 4 2006, 2:27 AM EDT
I don't know what SFX is? 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
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1. RE: What is SFX?
Oct 5 2006, 9:08 PM EDT | Post edited: Oct 5 2006, 9:08 PM EDT
"I don't know what SFX is?"
In non-technical terms SFX is a behind-the-scenes program that connects you from the reference to a journal article, to the full-text of the article itself ...... assuming CSU has access to the online journal in the first place. it's a very clever system that works by "harvesting" the details of the journal article you require (eg. the journal title, volume number, page numbers) and converting them to a URL (in this case called an OpenURL) to locate the online full-text. 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?