Serials Solutions Announces New Federated Search Connection Development Framework
Serials Solutions 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.
“This new process is a leap forward,” says Jane Burke, General Manager of Serials Solutions. “We are committed to the advancement of federated search technology for the benefit of librarians and library patrons.”
Using the Connection Development Framework, Serials Solutions is able to more quickly build the highest quality connections to serve both 360 Search and WebFeat, and enhance the library of over 7,000 connections already available in both services.
“Over the years, the developers for WebFeat and 360 Search have fielded many customer requests and used them to improve our federated search technology. Working together, we’ve applied what we’ve learned to create new processes that allow us to develop and maintain superior federated search connections,” says Stephen DiStasio, Product Manager for Serials Solutions.
The Serials Solutions® 360 Search and WebFeat™ Connection Development Framework is currently operational in both federated search services. For more information, email 360@serialssolutions.com or call 1-866-SERIALS.
About Serials Solutions
Founded in 2000 by a librarian for librarians, Serials Solutions is the global leader in E-Resource Access and Management Services (ERAMS) that serves more than 2,000 libraries of all sizes and types. Serials Solutions® KnowledgeWorks, the authoritative e-resource knowledgebase, is the foundation for Serials Solutions® 360, the only complete and integrated e-resource access and management solution.
Serials Solutions also is the exclusive source for Ulrichs™ Global Serials Intelligence and represents the AquaBrowser Library® unified discovery interface in the academic market in North America. The WebFeat® federated search service recently acquired by ProQuest soon will be incorporated into the Serials Solutions family of access and discovery services.
Serials Solutions provides fast implementation, easy customization, and outstanding value to libraries throughout the world. For more information, please visit www.serialssolutions.com or call 1-866-SERIALS. Serials Solutions is a business unit of ProQuest LLC.
About ProQuest
ProQuest provides seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world’s scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social science to science, technology, and medicine. ProQuest is part of the Cambridge Information Group.
ProQuest’s vast content pools are available to researchers through libraries of all types and include the world’s largest digital newspaper archive, periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles and spanning more than 500 years, the pre-eminent dissertation collection, and various other scholarly collections. Users access the information through the ProQuest® and CSA Illumina™ online information systems, Chadwyck-Healey™ electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, eLibrary® and SIRS® educational resources, Ulrich’s® Serials Analysis System, COS Scholar Universe, and Serials Solutions® resource management tools. Through the expertise of business units Serials Solutions and COS, ProQuest provides technological tools that allow researchers and libraries to better manage and use their information resources. For more information, visit www.proquest.com, www.proquest.co.uk, and www.csa.com.