Ex Libris Primo Central Index to Include Cairn.info Content

Ex Libris Primo Central Index to Include Cairn.info Content
French-language publisher Cairn.info will boost the discoverability of its
content via the Primo Central Index of scholarly e-resources
Jerusalem, Israel—February 22, 2012. Ex Libris ® Group, a world leader in the provision
of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that Cairn.info has joined the rapidly
expanding group of information providers whose scholarly content is searchable in the Primo
Central Index.
The Cairn.info platform contains top French, Belgian, and Swiss academic journals in the
fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy, history, sociology, economics, political science,
education, psychology, geography, and others. More than 80 publishers participate in the
platform, including Armand Colin, Belin, Les Belles Lettres, Dalloz, La Documentation
française, Éditions La Découverte, Les Éditions de l’EHESS, Éditions Gallimard, Les Éditions
de Minuit, Éditions du Seuil, ESKA, L’Harmattan, Klincksieck, Presses de Sciences Po,
Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), and Vrin. Both the metadata and the full text of
these collections will be indexed in Primo Central.
Offered as a cloud-based service to hundreds of libraries around the globe, the Primo
Central Index is an integral part of the Ex Libris Primo ® discovery and delivery solution. As a
one-stop service, Primo enables users to fulfill their information needs by exploring their
library’s locally managed collections along with global and regional resources indexed in
Primo Central, and to obtain one blended, relevance-ranked result list.
Marc Minon, CEO of Cairn.info, commented: “We are very pleased that our extensive
collections will now be indexed in Primo Central and more easily accessed by our subscribers
around the world. This collaboration with Ex Libris will play an important part in achieving
our goal of improving the discoverability of French scholarly resources by the global
research community.”
“We are delighted that Cairn.info has chosen the Primo Central Index as its first discovery
index for the platform’s journal and e-book collections,” noted David Beychok, vice
president of discovery and delivery solutions at Ex Libris. “Along with the multilingual
capabilities of Primo, the extensive coverage that Primo Central offers from information

providers across the board enables us to work with a wide range of publishers for the
benefit of users all over the world.”
About Cairn.info
Created in September 2005 by four Belgian and French publishers, Cairn.info now offers the
most comprehensive collection of human and social science publications in the French
language available online. In 2012, around 300 journals and more than 3000 e-books from
major French, Belgian, and Swiss publishers will be available at www.cairn.info, enabling
students, scholars, librarians, and casual users to access the full text of more than 200,000
articles and book chapters online.
For more information, see www.cairn.info (in French).
About Ex Libris
Ex Libris is a leading provider of automation solutions for academic libraries. Offering the
only comprehensive product suite for electronic, digital, and print materials, Ex Libris
provides efficient, user-friendly products that serve the needs of libraries today and will
facilitate their transition into the future. Ex Libris maintains an impressive customer base
consisting of thousands of sites in more than 80 countries on six continents.
Dedicated to developing creative solutions in close collaboration with customers, Ex Libris
enables academic, national, and research libraries to maximize productivity and efficiency
and, at the same time, greatly enhance the user experience. By empowering users to
discover and obtain the information they need, libraries ensure their position as the bridge
to knowledge.
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