Workflow Solutions News

ProQuest has completed its acquisition of Ex Libris Group and formed a new business unit: Ex Libris, a ProQuest company. This new business unit will manage existing discovery, knowledgebase, and management solutions including: Alma, Aleph, bX, Intota, Primo, Rosetta, SFX, SIPX, Summon, 360 Link, Voyager, and the newly launched Leganto reading-list solution and campusM mobile campus solution. Although two organizations and customer communities are being integrated, we want to assure you that you will continue working with the same Support teams as before.

Soon enough it will be time for our Data Retrieval Service (DRS) to upload your year-end usage reports and make the data available in the consolidated reports you run on the Intota Assessment platform. Review our recommended action items to ensure that your 2015 data is as complete as possible. Read more.

This year we have made some significant improvements to the Summon algorithm, designed to improve the researcher’s experience in a variety of situations, including exploratory searching, searching for specific topics, and searching for a known item. Now, as a result of these changes, we believe researchers will be able to find the best information possible, more quickly and easily.

360 Usage Statistics and 360 Counter consolidated usage and cost reports moved to the more robust Intota Assessment platform in late June, have you checked out the new reporting platform yet?

The inaugural ProQuest User Summit is October 7-9 in Chicago. Register today and join us for this “can’t miss” event for Summon, Intota, and RefWorks users. Receive a $50 discount for each additional attendee from your organization.

Do you want to simplify your e-resource management to have the flexibility of centralized acquisition and management for discovery? The next release of Intota v1, will help make your life easier! Arriving at the end of September, the new release allows libraries that jointly purchase or license resources, to share assets such as databases and holdings without having to key in redundant information. If your library

Linked Data is important for helping libraries participate in a Web-based world and provides opportunities for enriched description and relationships between resources, people and other concepts, publishing structured data in a format that major search engines can recognize. ProQuest has responded to these changes in the metadata landscape by integrating a linked data services platform into the Intota architecture. The solution is being developed to support linked data from the outset, providing libraries with a place from which to curate and publish resource metadata that will integrate into the larger Web ecosystem.

Books In Print® and Resources for College Libraries ™ are getting a facelift! This summer, both Books In Print® and Resources for College Libraries ™ will be updating their look to make it easier to view the site on all devices. We’ve incorporated responsive design into the platform and enhanced the look and feel of the site.

The occasional View from the Knowledgebase is intended to provide you with a statistical glimpse into the ProQuest® Knowledgebase, the comprehensive and authoritative repository of electronic, print, and digital resource metadata that powers the Intota™ library services platform, the Summon® service, and other ProQuest solutions that researchers and librarians use every day.

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