Deeplinking, Westlawnext and the Father of Existentialism.

Prior to Westlawnext being rolled out to the faculty and staff and Duncan School of Law, for my class this coming semester, I created a libguide from which I provide links to a few different articles.  For two of the articles, I linked to Westlaw using Westlaw's Linkbuilder.  With the semester approaching I checked the links.  Good news: they work.  Strange news: they link out to Westlawnext.  This concerned me so I tried the link on one of our students' computers.  It linked to Westlaw.  Whew - my students will be able to retrieve even though Westlawnext doesn't get rolled out to them until late September."But what about printing?" I thought.  I have been advised that we won't be able to print from Westlawnext to our Westlaw printers until 2011. 

So I wonder whether this push was a marketing tool for Westlawnext or just a way for Westlaw to keep their costs down.  In any event, when I linked the article to Westlaw, I had no intention of it linking to Westlawnext.  It was not what I wanted and that just doesn't work for me.  In the words of Kierkegaard, "If I had a humble spirit in my service, who when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that pleasure consists not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way." [DW]