New from Ex Libris: Primo Central

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Primo in a nutshell

• An end-user discovery and delivery solution

• Enables a library to offer its entire collection through a single interface, easily and intuitively

• Incorporates Web 2.0-inspired services

• Includes a full spectrum of customization options, allowing libraries to tailor the content, the display, and the services to their users’ needs

• Open and extensible; integrates with other systems and enables multiple entry point for end users

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Searching in Primo

Another Primo

Deep-search

compliant repository

Metasearch

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We need to move forward

• Users expect a single interface and an excellent response time

• Information providers are looking for means to promote the discoverability of their collections

• Technology accommodates large scale repositories and high net traffic

Time to build custom mega-aggregations of scholarly materials. Wisely and carefully.

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Wisely and carefully?

• Remember who the user is

• Build scholarly offering around institutional nucleus

• Help the user focus

• Complement searching with additional tools such as recommendations and links to related materials

• Provide relevant services

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What is Primo Central?

• Centralized Primo index; offered by Ex Libris as a

service

• Includes data from primary and secondary

publishers and aggregators

• Available to all Primo customers

• Available to all MetaLib customers

as a search target

• Designed to index hundreds of

millions of scholarly materials

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What is Primo Central for?

• Serves as a central index for scholarly materials

• Primarily articles and e-books, but also other

materials of interest

• Items that are of global and regional academic

significance

• Enables Primo to present one, blended result list

• Supports Primo’s proven high level of performance

and relevance ranking quality

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Ex Libris Manages Primo Central

• Hosting and ongoing maintenance

• Signing agreements with information

providers to obtain their data

• Harvesting, normalizing, and adding content

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Primo Central Content

• Articles, e-books, and possibly other e-content

• Bibliographic metadata

• Abstracts

• Full text

• Type of content is subject to the agreement with

the information provider

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Institutional Information Resources

Local Primo Index

Primo Search

Local Primo Index

GO

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Another Primo Library

Institutional Information Resources

GO

Local Primo Index

Remote PrimoIndex

Primo Search

3rd-Party Repository

Resource Accessed

via API

Primo Deep SearchLocal Primo Index

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Another Primo Library

Institutional Information Resources

GO

Local Primo Index

Remote PrimoIndex

Primo Metasearch

Primo Link

Primo Search

3rd-Party Repository

Resource Accessed

via API

Resources Supporting Metasearch Standards

Other Resources

Primo Deep SearchLocal Primo Index

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Aggregated Licensed Resources Another Primo Library

Institutional Information Resources

GO

Local Primo Index

Primo Central

Remote PrimoIndex

Primo Metasearch

Primo Link

Primo Search

3rd-Party Repository

Resource Accessed

via API

Resources Supporting Metasearch Standards

Other Resources

Primo Deep SearchLocal Primo Index

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Blended Result List

A record originating from Primo Central

A record originating from a local Primo index

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Demo

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Primo Central Library Partners

• Brigham Young University (United States)

• Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)

• Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg—KOBV Consortium: Humboldt University, Free University of Berlin, Mannheim University, and the Technological University, Berlin (Germany)

• Michiana Academic Library Consortium institutions: University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College, Holy Cross College, and Bethel College (United States)

• Oxford University (United Kingdom)

• University of New South Wales (Australia)

• Vanderbilt University (United States)

• Yonsei University (South Korea)

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• American Institute of Physics (AIP)

• AIP Scitation partners including SIAM, SPIE & 17 others

• arxiv.org• Alexander Street Press• American Institute of Physics• American Psychological

Association (APA) • BioMedCentral • BMJ Publishing Group• Cambridge University Press• Directory of Open Access

Journals (DOAJ)• EBSCO

• Emerald Press• Hindawi Publishing Corporation

and Informit• Ingram Digital • IOP Publishing (Institute of Physics)• JSTOR• Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS)• Library of Congress• OECD• Publishing Technology• Project MUSE (The Johns Hopkins

University Press)• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)• U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)• University of Chicago Press

Publishers already on board (Dec. 14, 09)

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Primo Central: Summing up

• Provides a feasible, cost-effective method for making remote resources seamlessly searchable by end users

• Builds on Primo search architecture to provide a complete search environment

• Enables an institution to control the search environment it provides to its users

• Enhanced by SFX and bX to best support users’ quest for information

• Hosted in a Cloud environment

• Beta: end of 2009; general availability: mid 2010

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For more information:

Maciej Dziubeckim.dziubecki@aleph.pl