Bug 15352 changed the item record link from showing the URL to showing the text defined in the URLLinkText preference. You can now only empty out the pref and affect both bibliographic records and items to undo the change or accept that both show the same text. For the item URLs the use case is often a little different than for the ones in the bibliographic record so it would be nice to have this configurable separately which should also allow to opt for using the old behaviour of showing the URLs as is in the item records.
We have an empty URLLinkText and will be using the items.uri for the first time soon. My colleagues want 2 things. The first is different default text. We are working on that: $("a:contains('Link to resource')").html('text to be agreed'); They also want different wording for different use cases with the items.uri which I think will be a lot harder. The field does not accept hrefs (tried that) so for now item-specific link text is not on offer.