Research Solutions, Inc., a pioneer in providing cloud-based workflow solutions for R&D driven organisations, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Reprints Desk and global library cooperative OCLC have forged an agreement bringing together two powerful solutions for academic institutions: Article Galaxy and Tipasa. Article Galaxy, Reprints Desk’s award-winning research platform, provides customers with fast, reliable, and personalised access to full-text scientific literature and intelligent data insights. Tipasa, OCLC’s cloud-based interlibrary loan management system, allows academic librarians to manage a high volume of interlibrary loan requests by automating routine borrowing and lending functions so they can quickly deliver items and provide a superior customer experience.
Using custom integration points, Tipasa customers can now easily access documents on demand via Reprints Desk’s Article Galaxy platform, conveniently supplementing their interlibrary loan workflows and subscriptions. That includes: easy access to articles from 40,000 journals and chapters from 400,000 books; native PDF documents delivered within minutes, 24/7; and special discounted academic copyright fees and no start-up fees.
In the Tipasa interface, library staff can compare the cost of purchasing an item from Reprints Desk alongside the costs of acquiring the item from other sources. Staff can place an order for the item with Reprints Desk from within the Tipasa interface, and journal articles are delivered via Article Exchange, OCLC’s document sharing site. Articles can be automatically delivered to patrons with a simple configuration setting.
To enable this integration, libraries must have an Article Galaxy account unique to the Tipasa platform and activate it in the OCLC Service Configuration.
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