Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that eight academic institutions have collaborated with the company as partners for the Primo Central index of scholarly materials.
The institutions are the first ones to become partners in this initiative. These include: Brigham Young University (US); Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg—KOBV Consortium: Humboldt University, Free University of Berlin, Mannheim University, and the Technological University, Berlin (Germany); Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium); Michiana Academic Library Consortium institutions: University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College, Holy Cross College and Bethel College (US); Oxford University (UK); University of New South Wales (Australia); Vanderbilt University (US); and Yonsei University (South Korea). These partner libraries will start using the Primo Central service following the beta release at the end of December 2009. The general release is targeted for mid-2010.
More than 250 academic and research institutions in 28 countries are already using the Primo discovery and delivery solution, installed locally or managed by Ex Libris as a service. Primo Central, a new component in the Primo search environment, is projected as a centralised index comprising data harvested from primary and secondary publishers and aggregators. By incorporating the Primo Central index, a library can expect to offer one search interface and a single, relevance-ranked result list, regardless of the origin of the information — be it local, institutional collections or global collections of electronic journals, e-books and other scholarly materials. Ex Libris provides Primo Central as a service in a cloud environment.
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