Supporting discovery and delivery
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The issue
It is important that students, academics and researchers can easily find as much relevant information for their studies as possible.
Libraries spend large amounts of money on resources each year and as a result need to maximise their use.
How we can help
Jisc offers a variety of services that can help to widen the range of resources your library users are able to discover.
What you can do
Explore our discovery services
- Improve your users' access to rare items and little known primary sources from university, specialist, business and museum archives by searching the Archives Hub
- Find books, maps and journals held in libraries across the UK by searching in Copac and SUNCAT
- Use CORE to increase the amount of open access content your users can readily find from repositories across the UK and abroad
- Finally, Zetoc not only offers the chance to search citations and conference papers, but can alert you to new additions to publications, keeping you up to date with the latest developments
Improve the visibility of your own collections
Becoming a contributor to services like Copac, SUNCAT, Archives Hub and CORE will greatly improve the visibility of your own library catalogue, special collections and research outputs respectively.
Integrate Jisc services into your library searching
Several of our services will allow integration with your own search interfaces using Z39.50 or plugins, enabling you to incorporate external results with those of your discovery service.
For more information on this please visit the Copac, Zetoc and SUNCAT websites.
Knowledge Base+ (KB+) also supplies accurate, compatible journal title lists for your subscriptions which can be exported and used to populate your library management system or link resolver. Some system vendors also take data directly from KB+.