SFX(Special Effects)

• SFX,an abbreviation for special effects , is a software product that makes it easy to create certain kinds of hypertext links within a collection of information such as the description of a library collection.
• Using SFX, a librarian could, for example, create context-sensitive linking between all components of an electronic information collection, such as abstracts, full-text articles, library catalogs, indexing databases, journal citations, and so on.
• Context-sensitive linking provides much easier access to information: metadata about one source link it to other related sources that the user can access simply by clicking the links.
• SFX was developed by Herbert Van de Sompel at the University of Ghent in Belgium, in collaboration with the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• The product has since been acquired by Ex Libris, an Israel-based company that developed Aleph , the original library automation product.