Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, US, has announced that the Gelman Library System at George Washington University has chosen the AquaBrowser Unified Discovery Interface to provide patrons with enhanced access to the library's entire collection.
Gelman Library is a member of the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) which implemented its current Voyager integrated library system in 1997. Voyager replaced Gelman's NOTIS system. At that time, Gelman and the other consortium libraries launched an online public access catalog, called Aladin. The decision to adopt AquaBrowser as an alternative to the Aladin interface for Gelman Library was the result of a three-month product review during which other fully featured discovery layer offerings were examined.
The AquaBrowser unified discovery interface gives patrons the ability to search all indexed content with a single query, regardless of format or where the content is located within the library. Search results are simultaneously ranked by relevance and visualized using word clouds that provide opportunities for further exploration. These results can be further refined using faceted navigation.
AquaBrowser is vendor-neutral discovery platform that works with any integrated library system (ILS). Libraries can implement AquaBrowser with any ILS and then migrate it easily if and when they choose a new ILS system, including any open source ones.
The AquaBrowser platform is exclusively represented by Serials Solutions in the academic market in North America.
