Re: Primo Central without Primo

From: Laurence Lockton <L.G.Lockton_at_nyob> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 08:03:22 +0100 To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

Hi Michele,

My understanding is that Primo Central as a target for MetaLib does not 
give you the ability to match results to your holdings, so users cannot 
choose to search only items with full text available. Is that right, and 
is that why you licenced Primo Central separately? And you didn't have 
to purchase Primo itself, but there's an extra cost for the API?

Thanks,

Laurence Lockton
University of Bath
UK

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[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michele Newberry
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3:01 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Primo Central without Primo

PCI = Primo Central Index

BTW I was alerted that the link I sent included a session ID so this one
will last longer:
    http://fgcu.catalog.fcla.edu/gc.jsp?st=everglades+research&ix=kw&fl=ba

We got PCI because of our MetaLib license (as does other Ex Libris
customers) but we wanted to use if via our own interface (fondly known
as Mango) so we separately licensed it and the PCI API.

We don't view it that we're merging external databases into the PCI
result set - we're merging PCI search results into our internal Mango
result set. Might just be semantics.

   - Michele