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Chapter in an Edited Book

An OpenURL for a chapter in an edited volume — genre=bookitem, with the book title in btitle, the chapter title in atitle, and page numbers.

Scenario

A bibliography cites a chapter in an edited handbook. The chapter has its own title and authors, distinct from the volume's editors. The OpenURL carries both titles, the chapter authors, the page range and the ISBN of the volume. The example is real: chapter 3 of the Handbook of Knowledge Representation, edited by Frank van Harmelen, Vladimir Lifschitz and Bruce Porter (Elsevier, 2008).

OpenURL

https://resolver.example.edu/openurl?
url_ver=Z39.88-2004
&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book
&rft.genre=bookitem
&rft.btitle=Handbook+of+Knowledge+Representation
&rft.atitle=Description+Logics
&rft.aulast=Baader
&rft.aufirst=Franz
&rft.au=Horrocks%2C+Ian
&rft.au=Sattler%2C+Ulrike
&rft.pub=Elsevier
&rft.place=Amsterdam
&rft.date=2008
&rft.series=Foundations+of+Artificial+Intelligence
&rft.spage=135
&rft.epage=179
&rft.isbn=9780444522115
&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016/S1574-6526(07)03003-9
&rfr_id=info:sid/example.com:database

Decoded

rft.genre
bookitem: a defined section of a book, here a chapter.
rft.btitle
Handbook of Knowledge Representation: the title of the containing book.
rft.atitle
Description Logics: the chapter title.
rft.aulast / rft.aufirst
Baader / Franz: the chapter's first author.
rft.au (repeated)
Horrocks, Ian; Sattler, Ulrike: the other chapter authors.
rft.pub / rft.place / rft.date
Elsevier; Amsterdam; 2008: publication details of the volume.
rft.series
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (the handbook is volume 3 of the series).
rft.spage / rft.epage
135 / 179: the chapter's page range.
rft.isbn
9780444522115: ISBN of the volume.
rft_id
The chapter's DOI.

Notes

  • The defining detail of a chapter OpenURL is rft.genre=bookitem, with the pair (btitle, atitle) carrying (book, chapter).
  • The names in rft.aulast/rft.aufirst/rft.au are the chapter's authors. The Book format has no key for editors, so the volume editors are not sent.
  • Use rft.spage/rft.epage for the chapter's pages; rft.tpages would be the length of the whole book.

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