Products
Encore Synergy
Encore Synergy brings the whole library, right now, to a single search box. It’s an integrated discovery application that responds to searches with current scholarly and popular articles, local books, e-books, specialized digital collections, institutional repositories, and more. Your users easily grasp a picture of exactly what you want to offer along with access to community exchange of ideas, real time circulation status, library programs and course reserves.
Articles Front and Center
Encore Synergy’s article integration offers abstract previews and full text articles from the initial results set. By streaming results from subscription databases, users get real-time data, fresh from content providers tightly coupled with the universe of resources you want to present. Whether a user chooses to focus on article or local content, the system responds with relevant results set and discovery tools that span both, and more. Federated search or OpenURL products, or maintaining a large index is simply not necessary.
Users First
Encore Synergy offers not only a single search box but next steps that take them where they want to go—from smart choices for continuing exploration to immediate full text results. Add to this discovery tools—such facets, search history, and smart suggestions—and your users get the most exciting and complete discovery experience available.
Smart discovery of the whole library requires librarian expertise. That’s why Encore Synergy leverages your decisions about promoting items, creating reviews, selecting content, and crafting metadata. It’s your library.
Finally, there’s a discovery tool application that brings it all home.
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Encore Discovery
People come to the library to find, not to search. Easy to implement, easier to use, Encore Discovery marshals all manner of search technologies, including faceted search results, Tag Cloud, Did You Mean…?, Popular Choices, Recently Added suggestions, and RightResult™ relevance ranking. You can also invite your users to participate with Web 2.0 features such as ratings and reviews.
Encore casts a wide net, integrating special digital collections harvested from your campus, e-journals, and consortia holdings. Did we mention Encore is completely ILS-independent? In short, Encore is the most effective discovery solution available today.
Encore Harvesting Services
With Encore Harvesting Services, you can integrate OAI-compliant metadata from all your specialized databases or make them available through an external service provider. Any OAI-PMH data provider can be harvested, including CONTENTdm®, Digital Commons™, Tamino™, Fedora™, DSpace™, Bepress Legal Repository, and Innovative’s Content Pro digital library solution.
Users find your digital collections in a single search of Encore. Encore’s community features allow your community to add their knowledge and views to important local resources. You can also implement automatic updates from growing your digital collection to reflect the very latest from your library or campus.
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Encore Query API
The Encore Query API opens even more avenues to next-gen discovery. Encore’s Service Oriented Architecture supports an elegant blending of applications to meet specific technology goals. Liberating library data in a technology-forward environment means your vision can be as big as you want it to be.
Questions about Encore products? Email the Encore Team.