Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, and digital content services provider Ingram Digital, US, have announced an agreement to make e-book content available through Ingram’s e-content aggregation platform, MyiLibrary. MyiLibrary e-book content will now be available to library users through the full suite of Ex Libris discovery products - Primo Central mega-aggregate of scholarly e-content, the SFX OpenURL link resolver and the MetaLib gateway and metasearch solution.
Libraries will benefit from the collaboration between Ingram and Ex Libris by having one search and discovery tool that can access the vast and comprehensive e-content catalogue of MyiLibrary, and by significantly increasing the breadth and depth of publisher content that libraries can make available to their patrons.
MyiLibrary is a fast-growing online e-content solution that currently includes hundreds of thousands of titles covering all major disciplines. Ingram Digital 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.
Ingram will provide metadata for all its MyiLibrary e-book titles for indexing in Primo Central. 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. Primo Central is now undergoing beta testing by 14 Primo Central partner libraries around the world, and will be available to the more than 250 Primo customers and 1500 MetaLib customers in mid-2010.
Ex Libris will also use the MyiLibrary metadata to enhance the SFX OpenURL link resolver KnowledgeBase. SFX is used by over 1800 institutions in more than 50 countries. Released in 2001 as the first software of its kind, SFX offers a wealth of features that go far beyond basic link resolver functionality, including a comprehensive KnowledgeBase; an A-Z list; and CitationLinker, Collection Analysis, and Statistics modules.
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