New BrowZine Primo Integrations

[rmcnally]

BrowZine has added two new Primo integrations that we may want to consider. We currently use BrowZine integrations for the ‘View Issue/Journal Contents’ and ‘Download PDF’ options that appear in Primo.

The first is for a ‘Read Article’ option that is supposed to expand one-click access to aggregator platforms: https://thirdiron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BrowZineAPIDocs/pages/79200260/Ex+Libris+Primo+Integration#ExLibrisPrimoIntegration-ReadNow
The documentation for this one is pretty sparse and I’m not clear what differentiates it from having Direct Linking enabled (having the Full Text Available button skip the Full Result page and link directly to the first available service). Links to aggregator platforms are less reliable than publisher platforms, so I would rather have users continue to see the full range of services available. We could test in the sandbox, though.

The second is for a ‘Download PDF via Unpaywall’ link for direct links to Open Access articles: https://thirdiron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BrowZineAPIDocs/pages/79200260/Ex+Libris+Primo+Integration#ExLibrisPrimoIntegration-Unpaywall
This probably merits more discussion as we were previously interested in the Primo enhancement that allows for this capability but is so far limited to VE customers. Example of that from BU: https://buprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/g23ind/TN_medline30301987 . Two potential drawbacks we discussed before are that users might find themselves at a preprint version of an article we have paid access to and that we might lose some EZproxy counting stats to these links.