EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) continues to provide support in advocating open source and open access. EBSCO has agreed to provide additional financial support to Koha, the world's first full-featured, free open source Integrated Library System (ILS) that is used worldwide by more than 15,000 libraries of all types.
EBSCO began providing financial support to Koha in February 2015. This latest contribution will help with the next phase of community driven enhancements, including support for additional system interoperability as well as acquisition and e-resource management capabilities in Koha such as creation of an acquisitions API; complete implementation of ordering and invoicing system; improve interoperability between Koha and CORAL to provide an Open Source solution combining traditional ILS work flows and ERM functionality; and plug-in integration to Italy's Indice SBN.
The financial support from EBSCO will be provided via the Koha Gruppo Italiano/ The American University of Rome, which will be assisted in this development and integration by key Koha contributors ByWater Solutions, Biblibre and @Cult. In keeping with open source tradition, these enhancements to Koha are truly open source and will be available for others to use, modify and re-distribute.
Work on the enhancements mentioned above are expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2017.
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