The session will provide a comprehensive update of the recent developments regarding the SFX framework and the SFX software.

The current status of the Ex Libris SFX software  <www.sfxit.com> will be discussed. As part of this topic, a report on the experiences of the Los Alamos Research Library in beta-testing the SFX server will be given. The Los Alamos Research Library recenly moved SFX into production.

There will be an update on the ongoing process of standardizing the OpenURL <www.sfxit.com/OpenURL/> as the interoperability mechanism between information resources that allow open linking and service components such as the SFX server that deliver localized service links. An overview of current support of OpenURL in the information industry will be given.

The session will accord special attention to the collaboration between the SFX community and the DOI community. Part of this collaboration for which an elaborate experiment is underway is about the integration of the SFX framework and the DOI framework, as a means to enable localized resolution of DOI's. Another part of the collaboration is related to the interest that was recently expressed by the DOI community to use OpenURL as the general purpose syntax to transport DOI's on a URL.