Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has signed an agreement with electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US. The agreement enables EBSCOhost subscribers that run the Primo discovery and delivery solution to offer their users seamless access to the EBSCOhost electronic content via a new Primo component, Primo Central. The Primo technology will be used by Ex Libris to index the EBSCO content centrally and make it available for users' searches along with all other library and institutional collections. Primo will display the search results in a single relevance-ranked list.
EBSCO's content, which includes some of the most important databases for scholarly researchers, will be more visible to library patrons through Primo. Ex Libris and EBSCO will ensure that libraries that use both Primo and EBSCOhost services are able to provide their users with seamless online access to the full-text information that they want, whether it is discovered through Primo, EBSCOhost Integrated Search, or EBSCO Discovery Service.
EBSCO joins a large, rapidly growing list of publishers participating in Primo Central that includes Alexander Street Press; IOP Publishing; the Johns Hopkins University Press/Project MUSE; the National Academy of Sciences/PNAS; the United States National Library of Medicine/PubMed; the American Institute of Physics, together with a number of their Scitation hosting platform partners, including SPIE, SIAM, and the Acoustical Society of America; the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); and more. These organisations are collaborating with Ex Libris on a global scale to enable library users to find and access valuable, authoritative content in their local library and through the growing network of Primo libraries. Primo is implemented in more than 180 leading academic and research institutions in 23 countries.
Search for more such STM search tools in K-Store
Discuss this NEWS
