Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the bX scholarly recommender service is now available in even more library interfaces. Launched in May 2009 as an additional service for customers of the SFX OpenURL link resolver, bX is in use at more than 250 SFX libraries worldwide. A set of newly expanded application program interfaces (APIs) enable any library environment to include the bX recommendations in its interface.
Focused on the scholarly domain, bX claims to be the first service to provide article-level recommendations to library users. The recommendations that bX generates are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of usage logs from the SFX customer base and thus reflect the choices of researchers from institutions around the world. Pointing to specific scholarly articles, the recommendations meet researchers' expectations for up-to-date, Web 2.0 services from their library.
The bX API, which has been available since bX was launched last year, now includes HTML output and automatically checks for the full text of an item, thereby significantly extending the range of available options for integrating bX in a variety of library end-user interfaces.
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