By John McCullough, Vice President, Encore Division
Encore has been designed on the principle that users should have a single search box that discovers all types of information offered by the library. Articles are a key component of the information libraries offer, from scholarly research sources, which command the majority of academic library budgets, to the [...]
New Encore Product Provides Single Search Box & Deep Article Integration
April 16, 2010
Emeryville, CA—Innovative announced today the launch of Encore Synergy, the only discovery solution that fully integrates next-generation article discovery technology into a cutting-edge library discovery platform.
Deep Article Integration in Encore Synergy
With Encore Synergy, library users benefit from all the features of Encore Discovery, [...]
Mutual Customers to Benefit
January 16, 2010
Innovative Interfaces announced today that it has entered into a technology partnership with EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) bringing together two of the library community’s most well-regarded vendors. This partnership will offer integrated access to a library’s own EBSCOhost® subscriptions through the library’s Innovative Encore Discovery™ platform. The agreement also allows Encore [...]
Back to The Land, Back to the Library
Encore is a modern tool for easy discovery of anything your library wants to offer, and, by extension, it is an easy way to promote aspects of the collections that are truly local. An particularly “earthy” example is St. Lawrence University Library’s (NY) pilot project to build, digitize [...]
St. Lawrence University (NY) utilized Encore Harvesting Services to produce a single unified search of its OAI-PMH-compliant collections. The first collection is an institutional repository of seven regional liberal arts schools, called LASR (Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository), described in Qualified Dublin Core(SM) on a DSpace™ platform; the second is an image and video database of [...]
If before October of 2008 you knew next to nothing about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Willa Cather collection, your lack of knowledge might be forgiven. Reference to that collection—over 200,000 items, including print, archival, and electronic media—was scattered across four different data platforms.