Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, US, has announced an agreement with e-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US. Under the deal, a number of Gale’s academic databases can now be accessed directly via the Primo Central mega-aggregate of scholarly e-content.
The flagship full-text periodical databases Academic OneFile and General OneFile, together with the Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Sabin America resources, are now available via Primo Central. Gale is the latest of the rapidly expanding group of aggregators who have chosen to make their content accessible to library users via Primo Central, a centralised index comprising data harvested from primary and secondary publishers and aggregators.
With Primo Central, users simultaneously search locally managed collections and global e-content and receive search results that are blended into a single relevance-ranked list. The service is currently undergoing beta testing by 14 Primo Central partner libraries around the world. It will be available later this year to over 270 customers of the Primo discovery and delivery solution and more than 1500 MetaLib customers.
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