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by Tamar Fuches Ex Libris May 18, 2022

Integrating EndNote's "Find Full Text" with Alma Link Resolver

EndNote offers a "Find Full Text" feature that allows users to locate full text for citations. EndNote Find Full Text can now be configured to obtain PDFs from the Ex Libris Alma Link resolver. To use Alma Link Resolver with EndNote, there are three key preference fields users need to modify, highlighted here in Yellow: OpenURL:…

by Tamar Fuches Ex Libris May 10, 2022

Integration between Alma and Bibliographic Data Services (BDS)

Bibliographic Data Services (BDS) is a vendor which provides Enriched Metadata services for institutions. In order to automate the metadata enrichment process, Alma institutions can now integrate with BDS and automatically receive enriched bibliographic MARC records using ordering (PO line) and invoicing information which are sent automatically from Alma to BDS and by that informing…

by Josh Weisman Ex Libris March 8, 2022

Integrating Shibboleth with the Ex Libris Identity Service

The Ex Libris Identity Service provides every institution the ability to manage user passwords in a hosted identity management solution. The service enables authentication to Ex Libris products such as Alma and Primo out of the box. In some cases, institutions may maintain their own library services (such as custom discovery) for which patrons managed…

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Primo

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Student
Information
Systems

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information system integration

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Management
Systems

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management systems such as Blackboard™ and Moodle™

Open Source Discovery

Alma libraries have choice when it comes to discovery systems. Learn how to integrate Alma with open source systems such as Blacklight and VuFind

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Thousands of institutions make millions of API calls on the Ex Libris platform every day.

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