The Ex Libris Primo® system, which is in use at hundreds of academic institutions worldwide, is a user-centered tool for the discovery and delivery of scholarly materials. Among the many Primo customers are the British Library, Oxford University, New York University, the Royal Library of Denmark, the National Library of New Zealand, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).

Ex Libris is now offering publishers a program that, at no cost to you, will make your materials more discoverable and more accessible to this growing community of Primo users.

Primo offers users a single interface for searching in library resources such as the library catalog and digital repositories. The Primo metasearch component enables users to search in remotely hosted licensed resources as well; however, the speed of search and the return of results is dependent on network constraints, and results are typically presented as a distinct list. With the Primo Publisher Program, Primo can now index your content and then access it directly, offering users fully integrated searching across the entire library collection, including remote licensed resources, and the presentation of results in a single, unified, relevance-ranked list. Licensed electronic content—the most frequently sought material today—becomes more visible and more readily accessible.

Simplifying Content Discovery

By offering easy access to an entire library collection via a single interface, Primo addresses the academic researcher's most pressing need—a simple and effective way to find high-quality information. The new Primo Publisher Program maximizes the pathways to publishers’ content, so your content has a greater chance of being integrated in the researcher’s workspace.

When Primo indexes your content and accesses it directly, you gain these benefits:

• Increase the likelihood that researchers will discover and use your content
• Drive more traffic to your site and offer your services to your target audience
• Control full-text delivery with OpenURL linking, as you do now
• Enable end users to fulfill their academic tasks more effectively
• Assist libraries in optimizing the usage of their collection

Partnering with Ex Libris—an Easy Proposition

It's easy to partner with Ex Libris and, through the Primo Publisher Program, to increase access to your content. Deliver your content to us, or let us “crawl” your site, as appropriate. We can use FTP, OAI, or other methods that suit your environment.

We accept nearly all content formats, including XML, HTML, PDF, delimited ASCII, and MARC, and will take bibliographic data, abstracts, full text, and other data that you make available to us. To provide end users with the most compelling search experience, allow us to harvest your complete coverage of titles, including back files.

To ensure that your content is included and to learn more about the Primo Publisher Program, contact the Publisher Relationship Manager, Ex Libris, at primocentralprm@exlibrisgroup.com.

For a list of Primo Central publishers, please contact primocentralpub@exlibrisgroup.com.