Jerusalem-based Ex Libris Group has added content from Gale, a major academic database and research publishing house, to its Primo Central mega-aggregate of scholarly e-content.
The Primo Central program allows users to search both locally managed collections as well as global e-content and receive search results in one relevance-ranked list.
E-research and educational publishing company Gale, part of Cengage Learning, creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform. Its products are used at libraries, schools, and businesses.
The full-text periodical databases Academic OneFile and General OneFile, together with the Eighteenth Century Collections Online and Sabin America resources, are now available via Primo Central. Gale provided metadata for the e-journals in these databases for central indexing by Primo Central.
Primo Central is now undergoing beta testing by 14 Primo Central partner libraries around the world, and will be available to the customer community later this year.
Ex Libris corporate VP of discovery and delivery solutions Nancy Dushkin said, “We are thrilled to launch this collaboration with Galeenabling our customer community to access a wealth of scholarly resources.”
Ex Libris develops and sells automation solutions for academic libraries. The company was sold to Leeds Equity Partners in 2008 for $170 million.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on May 4, 2010
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