Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, US, has announced a new federated search Connection Development Framework for the Serials Solutions 360 Search and WebFeat federated search services. The connection development framework provides developers with new tools and processes to create better, faster and higher quality connections. For librarians, this means an increased number of resources available by federated search and better search results for patrons.
Using the Connection Development Framework, Serials Solutions is able to more quickly build the quality connections to serve both 360 Search and WebFeat, and enhance the library of over 7,000 connections already available in both services.
In a recent announcement, the company released a new Data Retrieval Service for faster analysis of Project COUNTER-compliant vendor reports. The Data Retrieval Service enables librarians to bypass the time-consuming tasks of downloading and correcting vendor data before it can be used for usage reporting and assessment.
