Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the TriUniversity Group of Libraries (TUG) in Ontario, Canada, has gone live with a public beta version of the Primo discovery and delivery solution. TUG is a consortium of three university libraries - the University of Guelph, the University of Waterloo, and Wilfrid Laurier University. The Group is also a member of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) consortium and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).
Primo is claimed to be a one-stop solution for the discovery and delivery of local and remote resources, such as books, journal articles and digital objects. The solution's Deep Search technology, a component of the Ex Libris strategic commitment to provide quality discovery for all research-library resources, enables library data from all sources to be seamlessly integrated.
Primo Deep Search functionality, which TUG will be using, enables Primo to display ranked result sets comprised of data retrieved from external repositories together with the library's local data. The unified result set is ranked by relevance and displayed using faceted categorisation. Tight integration with the external indexes that Primo leverages enables the solution to relate to the data contained within the external systems as if it was an intrinsic part of Primo. The result is that Primo end users experience instantaneous display of results with high-quality relevance ranking and a range of discovery-augmenting functionality such as user generated content, facets, e-shelf, and 'did you mean'.
The consortium is also beginning to work with its OCUL partners to integrate the electronic journal services of Scholars Portal into Primo, and to implement Primo Deep Search technology for full-text searching in the e-journal repository.
