December 12, 2011 UC Hastings College of the Law Library has installed Encore Synergy, which offers expanded article access and advanced search capability to staff and users. Among other sources, the Library is integrating articles from ProQuest®, Google Scholar™, and HeinOnline’s™ Core Collections that comprise more than 40 million pages of legal history, including more [...]
Are you one of the roughly 85 percent of libraries that have a Facebook page? With 51 percent of Americans on Facebook and more joining every minute, we are all aware of the value of going where the patrons are: the social networks. However, it is not enough to simply have a page on Facebook. [...]
The Cobalt Release of Encore Synergy is now available to all Encore customers. The 4.1 feature set includes: The new Cobalt skin, designed from usability testing feedback Article Portfolios for an expanded and contextual discovery experience Advanced Searching Improved relevance sorting options Integration with Novelist Select for You Might Like… recommendations Integration with Hein Online [...]
First US Academic Customer to Go Live with New Release of Discovery Application Release date: July 26, 2011 Emeryville, CA—University of Colorado-Boulder Libraries is live with Encore Synergy 4.1 and is the first US academic customer to implement the new release. Encore Synergy now offers expanded article access, advanced search, and a new Cobalt look [...]
With Encore Synergy 4.1, library users get the same real-time streaming of article sources via Web Services, along with a new Article Portfolios feature that brings contextual groupings of article information. Encore Synergy also offers new facets specific to article content to make limiting a large result set even more precise. Library staff will know [...]
Release Date: July 20, 2011 Emeryville, CA—Innovative is pleased to announce that resources from HeinOnline™, William S. Hein & Co’s premier online research product, now integrates into the Encore Synergy discovery application. A single search of Encore Synergy will now include results from HeinOnline’s Core Collections, which comprise more than 40 million pages of legal [...]
Partner-library Universidad de Sevilla is the first to be live along with with Encore Synergy 4.1, along with University of Colorado at Boulder. Try It! Universidad de Sevilla University of Colorado, Boulder These libraries are using the new Cobalt skin option (pictured) available in Encore 4.1. This free option continues our pattern of providing the [...]
Encore Synergy 4.1 extends article integration beyond core multi-disciplinary sources to cover a broader set of content. Grouping article sources by discipline into locally defined Synergy Portfolios ensure that Synergy users have the context to access the most relevant article content for their particular research needs. Encore Synergy’s Portfolios integrate as many sources as needed—from [...]
If you missed the most recent Encore webinars we can send you a link to the streaming video on CSDirect. If you are not an Innovative customer please write us for details. The two webinars addressed new developments that leverage Web Services technology to provide a richer, broader library discovery experience than ever before. The [...]