Trip has now integrated LibKey in to Trip. LibKey is an amazing tool and it makes Trip even better at supporting our users to obtain full-text articles.

One of the traditional methods of obtaining full-text has been to use something called a link resolver. This aims to link a user with their institutions full-text holdings. For instance if a University subscribes to a journal, the idea is that we send the user to the full-text journal article instead of the PubMed abstract. This is great, to a point. The downside is that it’s dumb! By that it doesn’t know if the institution actually subscribes to the journal – we simply insert the link out (using the link resolver) for every journal article! So, if the University doesn’t subscribe you get a disappointed user.

LibKey, on the other hand, is smart! It knows which institutions have which subscriptions and over which time-period. So, now no more misleading linkouts.

For this to work we need to link your institutions LibKey details with Trip and away we go. Fingers crossed your institution uses LibKey!