University of California, Santa Barbara

UCSB Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE)

UCSB Library’s catalog and discovery layer. The host search.library.ucsb.edu is a UCSB CNAME onto ucsb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, and the service resolves to Ex Libris tenancy 01UCSB_INST. The collection, the holdings and the tenant are UCSB’s; the contract, the API and the engineering are Ex Libris’. TENANT — the relationship is recorded here, the vendor’s generic Alma/Primo specification is deliberately NOT saved under this institution.

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LibraryCatalog
https://search.library.ucsb.edu/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ucsb:library-discovery
name: UCSB Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE)
description: UCSB Library’s catalog and discovery layer. The host search.library.ucsb.edu is a UCSB CNAME
  onto ucsb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, and the service resolves to Ex Libris tenancy 01UCSB_INST. The collection,
  the holdings and the tenant are UCSB’s; the contract, the API and the engineering are Ex Libris’. TENANT
  — the relationship is recorded here, the vendor’s generic Alma/Primo specification is deliberately NOT
  saved under this institution.
humanURL: https://search.library.ucsb.edu/
baseURL: https://ucsb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: Ex Libris (Clarivate)
x-tenant-evidence: 'DNS: search.library.ucsb.edu CNAME ucsb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com; discovery vid=01UCSB_INST:UCSB'
tags:
- Library
- Library Catalog
- Discovery
- Vendor Tenant
properties:
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://search.library.ucsb.edu/