Primo Central Index of Scholarly e-Content - Ex Libris

Primo Central Index of Scholarly e-Content
We all know that an ever-growing portion of every library’s collection is digital. In
response to the growing demand of libraries around the world for optimized integration of
global e-resources, Ex Libris offers Primo ® Central--a centralized index that covers
hundreds of millions of scholarly materials, such as articles and e-books, provided by
publishers and aggregators. Primo Central extends the power of the Primo discovery and
delivery solution by providing users with a single interface to the entire library offering,
presenting library users with an information landscape in which searching in remote and
local resources is seamless and search results are displayed in one blended, relevance-
ranked list.
Primo Central enables your library to retain control over the scope of materials that your
users access and the way in which results are displayed. Primo Central accommodates
your library’s license terms for scholarly materials and requires no technological
infrastructure or ongoing maintenance on the part of your library.
Benefits of Primo Central:
• Users search the entire library collection quickly and easily through a single,
intuitive interface and obtain the information they need through one list of results
blended from local and remote resources.

• Libraries save on cost, time, and effort in enabling users to search easily in
remote resources.
• Optimized eResource integration with search engine performance
• Libraries control the search environment that they provide to users.
• Libraries eliminate duplicate effort, by sharing a centralized repository of
harvested resources that are used by all Primo libraries.
The rapidly growing list of publishers participating in Primo Central includes EBSCO;
Alexander Street Press; IOP Publishing; Johns Hopkins University Press (Project MUSE);
the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS); the United States National Library of Medicine
(PubMed ® ); the American Institute of Physics, together with several Scitation ® hosting
platform partners, including SPIE, SIAM, and the Acoustical Society of America; the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); and more.
For additional information on Primo Central, see
http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/PrimoCentral.