University of Birmingham

FindIt@Bham library discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenancy)

FindIt@Bham is the University's library discovery layer, running on Ex Libris Primo — findit.bham.ac.uk CNAMEs to birmingham.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and on to eu00.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, and the served page is the Primo Explore Angular application. A second Birmingham Primo entity, https://bham-primo-stg.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/shib, appears as a service provider in the UK Access Management Federation metadata. The collection is Birmingham's; the discovery API is Ex Libris's. Recorded as a tenancy; no Ex Libris contract is saved under this institution.

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https://findit.bham.ac.uk/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-birmingham:findit-primo
name: FindIt@Bham library discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
description: FindIt@Bham is the University's library discovery layer, running on Ex Libris Primo — findit.bham.ac.uk
  CNAMEs to birmingham.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and on to eu00.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, and the served
  page is the Primo Explore Angular application. A second Birmingham Primo entity, https://bham-primo-stg.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/shib,
  appears as a service provider in the UK Access Management Federation metadata. The collection is Birmingham's;
  the discovery API is Ex Libris's. Recorded as a tenancy; no Ex Libris contract is saved under this institution.
humanURL: https://findit.bham.ac.uk/
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- Primo
- Ex Libris
- Tenant
properties:
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://findit.bham.ac.uk/