Primo
Primo Central: Upgrading the search
experience for your users
The ExLibris Primo® discovery and delivery solution coupled
with the vast Primo Central index of scholarly materials
enables users to search your library’s entire collection—both
physical holdings and e-resources—through a single point
of access, and to receive a single, relevance-ranked list of
results.
Hosted by ExLibris in a cloud computing environment, the
Primo Central service covers hundreds of millions of global
and regional e-resources, such as journal articles and e-books,
that are obtained from primary and secondary publishers and
aggregators, and from open-access repositories. Primo Central
offers the largest, most varied selection of high-quality
scholarly materials available today, brought to libraries by a
vendor that works with any and all information providers to
the benefit of the customer community.
By incorporating Primo Central in the Primo discovery and
delivery process or making the service a search target of the
MetaLib® portal and metasearch solution, you seamlessly
extend the reach of searches and help your users find the
items they need.
Enjoy both worlds
Primo Central enables your library to benefit from the power of
an aggregated, shared index and at the same time maintain full
control over the way in which your services are branded and
offered to users. You define the scope of materials presented to
your users and determine how results are displayed. But you are
spared the bother of technical maintenance, harvesting, and the
normalization of new content ExLibris handles it all for you.
Now your users can:
Search the entire library collection (physical holdings and
e-resources) through one search box in the intuitive Primo user
interface or through a Primo search box embedded in the library
Web site, Facebook, iGoogle, or a range of other sites. Users can
search from their cell phone, as well.
View a single relevance-ranked list of results retrieved
instantaneously from locally managed collections and
global e-content
Focus on relevant items by narrowing down long result lists
through faceted browsing or by following up on the system’s
search suggestions
Access the full text right away, in accordance with the library’s
subscriptions and policies
Navigate easily to other items of interest through usage-driven
recommendations generated by the bX article recommender
service
Enjoy a full range of services for downloading citations,
bookmarking articles, sharing findings, and more
Have an impact on the community by contributing tags, ratings,
and reviews
Feel at home with the library collection—right at users’ fingertips!
Your library staff can:
Define the information landscape for your library’s users
Customize the way in which users search e-collections
and view results
Enrich your users’ search experience with enhanced,
comprehensive metadata
Offer meaningful, branded library services that are
integrated with users’ workflows
Focus on what library staff do best—free from the burden
of technical maintenance tasks