Serials Solutions, a US-based provider of tools and services for libraries and a business unit of ProQuest LLC, has announced that it has made significant enhancements to its family of 360 Services for discovery. The enhancements are expected to enable librarians worldwide to activate a wide variety of new patron-facing tools and localisation capabilities.
Enhancements include language selection features, new bibliographic citation management options, new sorting functions for Chinese and Korean languages, custom text options and additional language support. These enable librarians to enrich their library patrons' research experiences and provide them with additional avenues of resource discovery.
The enhancements are available in the 360 Services - 360 Core E-Journal Portal A-to-Z list, 360 Link OpenURL link resolver, 360 Search federated search services - and the Serials Solutions Client Center. The new administration console organisation for 360 Core E-Journal Portal and 360 Link will enable librarians to quickly configure 360 Core E-Journal Portal and 360 Link to meet their patron-specific needs without requiring technical support. Patrons using 360 Link will now be able to save and share research bibliographies via RefWorks, EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager and additional bibliographic citation management options.
In addition, librarians can offer patrons language support across 14 new languages within the 360 Core E-Journal Portal and 360 Link interfaces, and three new languages for 360 Search - bringing the total to 22 languages supported across all of the 360 Services. With the 'On-the-Fly' language selection option, librarians can enable patrons to change languages 'on-the-fly' in the 360 Core E-Journal Portal and 360 Link interfaces. Patrons can also discover resources through new Chinese (Pinyin, Zhuyin, Stroke) and Korean character sorting options, supplementing the Japanese option already available in the 360 Core E-Journal Portal. Additionally, librarians now have the ability to customise any piece of text displayed within the 360 Core E-Journal Portal and 360 Link interfaces, across any language, to make resource discovery easier for their patrons.
These new capabilities are available to customers who subscribe to the respective services. Librarians simply login to the Serials Solutions Client Center and activate them.
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