Nuovo servizio di arricchimento di OPAC

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Nuovo servizio di arricchimento di OPAC
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CATALOGUE ENRICHMENT

• OPACs are now much more than just catalogues
• Thanks to the internet, library users expect and
  respond well to visual information
• Libraries wish to maximise usage of all resources
  and provide services that users truly appreciate
• Challenge is to ensure that OPACs are used to
  their full potential and are not overlooked

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SYNDETIC SOLUTIONS

• Syndetic Solutions founded in 1998
• Company acquired by Bowker in 2004
• Now integrated with Bowkers bibliographic
  datastream increasing UK and international
  content
• Neutral solution compatible with most ILS
  systems
• Over 2,000 customers worldwide

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AN OPAC ENRICHMENT SERVICE allowing libraries to
present their online catalogue to users in a more
informative and interesting way

• Link to cover images and a variety of data
  elements relating to more than
• 2.6 million books published since 1985
• 1.6 million jacket images plus 35,000 Video and
  DVD covers
• 70,000 First Chapters / Excerpts
• 1.4 million Summaries
• 660,000 Tables of Contents
• 700,000 Reviews from various sources
• 114,000 Author notes
• 97,000 Awards
• 4,600 Books In a Series

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SYNDETIC SOLUTIONS IS A HOSTED SERVICE

• All enrichment content resides on our secured
  servers
• Data is delivered directly to the OPAC through
  automatic links provided by the ISBNs within your
  local MARC records
• Data is accessed and displayed in a variety of
  ways depending on your local system and
  integration preferences
• - through activation links placed on your full
  record displays
• or search results lists
• - via HTML "pop-up" windows
• - or the data can be directly integrated into
  your record
• display using XML
• For library systems without these automatic
  links, Syndetics can add URL links to your MARC
  records

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COVER IMAGES
Over 1,600,000 full-colour cover images for
books, videos, DVDs More than 10,000 new
images are added each week
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FIRST CHAPTERS EXCERPTS

• More than 70,000 First Chapters and Excerpts from
  prominently reviewed new titles
• Approximately 2,000 new chapters added each month
• Chapters supplied to Syndetic Solutions from
  Dial-A-Book and from selected publishers
• Approximately 300 new excerpts (poems, recipes,
  forwards, prefaces, etc.) added each month

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SUMMARIES ANNOTATIONS

• More than 1,400,000 Summaries / Annotations
• Derived from book jackets, edited publisher
  copy, or independently written annotations from
  Book News, Inc.
• Covering fiction, non-fiction, and both trade
  and scholarly titles
• Approximately 5,000 added each week

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TABLES OF CONTENTS

• Over 660,000 Tables of Contents linking to
  around 1 million ISBNs
• Approximately 1,600 TOCs are added to the
  database each week

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BOOK REVIEWS

• Over 700,000 book reviews from various sources

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BOOK REVIEWS
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AWARDS

• Awards that a title has either won or been
  nominated for
• Information about award is displayed along with
  the list of other titles that have won that award
  
• Tracks 400 of the industrys leading awards that
  currently link to over 97,000 titles

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BOOKS IN A SERIES

• Each fiction title within a series displayed in
  reading order
• 4,600 new and existing series

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SEARCH FOR SIMILAR TITLES

• Click on any combination of headings within a
  Fiction Profile and retrieve a list of titles
  with those same attributes
• Library user can then view the shelf status
  within the library
• Over 140,000 Fiction Profiles
• 400 new novels added each month

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COMING SOON!...

• TOCSearch
• Increased video and music content
• Italian content
• German / French / Scandinavian content
• Increased Spanish content
• Serials content
• Reviews
• Covers
• TOCs
• Summaries

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IMPLEMENTATION BENEFITS

• Set up is fast and straightforward with no
  ongoing maintenance
• Select as many data elements as you wish
• Subscription model means you have an increasing
  match rate throughout the year (new books in your
  collection and new content added to our database
  is automatically linked together)
• Library users click to access our content
  directly from your OPAC or via your OpenURL Link
  Resolver
• Relevant content delivered directly to your OPAC
  in real time
• Large and growing database of rich data which is
  updated weekly

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SOME OF THE ILS VENDORS WE WORK WITH
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SOME EXAMPLES

• Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
  http//www.uib.es/servei/biblioteca/ - Search for
  "Has Feminism Changed Science" or "Handbook of
  Creativity" or "Oliver Twist" or "The Truly Needy
  and Other Stories" and select "Recursos
  Relacionats" to see examples of what Syndetics
  provides
• Universidad de Granada, Spain http//adrastea.ugr
  .es/searchspi/
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  http//cisne.sim.ucm.es/searchspi (e.g. search
  for Feuds)
• Southern Adventist University, USA
  http//lib-catalog.southern.edu?F (e.g. search
  for "The End of Poverty" 1594200459)
• South Dakota University, USA http//apollo.sdln.n
  et/F/?funcfind-a-0local_baseUSD (e.g. search
  for "The Price of Citizenship" 0805069291)
• Temple College, USA http//66.196.27.5/cgi-bin/Pw
  ebrecon.cgi?DBlocalPAGEFirst (e.g. search for
  Da Vinci Code)

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

• Visit www.syndetics.com
• Email ian.pattenden_at_bowker.co.uk
• Please contact me to receive
• A quotation based on the size of your collection

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QUOTATION
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

• Visit www.syndetics.com
• Email ian.pattenden_at_bowker.co.uk
• Please contact me to receive
• A quotation based on the size of your collection
• An ISBN match report

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ISBN MATCH REPORT
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

• Visit www.syndetics.com
• Email ian.pattenden_at_bowker.co.uk
• Please contact me to receive
• A quotation based on the size of your collection
• An ISBN match report
• Information on libraries who have already
  implemented the service
• Free trial access for two weeks
• Let Syndetic Solutions bring your OPAC to life!

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Nuovo servizio di arricchimento di OPAC
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GLOBAL BOOKS IN PRINT

• Nearly 15 million titles
• In print
• Out of print
• Forthcoming
• Updated daily
• 250,000 updates per week
• More than 2 million book reviews
• www.globalbooksinprint.com
• Free trial access available