Below are options for activating CDI search rights and Full Text linking. There are some best practices suggested by Ex Libris that help with making decisions on activating CDI Search and Linking. Ex Libris has published a page on CDI mapping and configuration on their Knowledge Center site.
The CDI Collection List is helpful for seeing which collections are available in CDI and what each setting means for that CDI collection.
Link-in-Record is also known as “Direct Linking.” “First Search” is the same as searching “My institution” or the local library holdings. In Ex Libris terminology, it would be First Search vs Expanded Search (include records from other libraries in search results).
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