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Ex Libris

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Variants seen in the corpus: Ex LibrisExLibris
A resource tag, not a market

No company describes its business as “Ex Libris”. It names something an API does — and 38 providers reach it through a specification or operation tag. The APIs below are the answer to this tag; the companies are not.

Providers using this tag (0)

No company classifies itself here — see the resource-tag note above, and the APIs below.

APIs with this tag (41)

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Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
CatalogPlus library discovery (Ex Libris Primo, OBVSG-hosted)TU Wien's library discovery layer. Recorded as a tenant relationship, which is a real institutional fact, s...56.2iDiscover library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE) — TENANTCambridge's library discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo VE. idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk is a CNAME to cam.p...55.2Helka Library Discovery — Ex Libris Primo tenantTENANT RELATIONSHIP. helka.helsinki.fi redirects to an Ex Libris Primo discovery interface with view identi...54.9
Developing 16 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
UNSW Library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE)UNSW Library's discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo VE. This entry records the tenancy so the relationsh...52.6SNU Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma) — tenancySeoul National University Library runs library management and discovery on Ex Libris Alma and Primo, instit...50.7HKU Libraries Discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenancy)HKU Libraries' discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo VE at julac-hku.primo.exlibrisgroup.com under the JU...49.6University Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)TENANT RELATIONSHIP, not a UIUC contract. Library discovery at Illinois runs on Ex Libris Primo — search.li...48.8UMD Discover — library discovery layerUMD's library catalog and discovery layer, delivered as Ex Libris Primo through the University System of Ma...47.9Macquarie University Library MultiSearch (Ex Libris Primo)Library discovery for Macquarie runs on Ex Libris Primo at multisearch.mq.edu.au. The holdings are Macquari...47.7Macquarie University Library Open-Source ToolingThe Macquarie University Library publishes six public repositories on GitHub as the mqlibrary organisation ...47.7HOLLIS library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)HOLLIS is Harvard Library's discovery layer. hollis.harvard.edu CNAMEs to hvd.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and r...47.6University of Auckland Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenant)The University of Auckland Library's discovery layer, an Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy (vid=64UAUCK_INST:UOA, ...46.8YorSearch Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma)YorSearch is the University of York library discovery service, an Ex Libris Primo front end over an Alma ba...43.7University Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)The University Library's discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo at tu-berlin.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com — an...43.2EPFL Library Discovery on swisscovery (Ex Libris, tenant)EPFL's library discovery and resolution run on Ex Libris Primo VE with Alma behind it, delivered through SL...42.6Aalto Learning Centre discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma, Finna)Library discovery and the library management system are Ex Libris products under Aalto tenancies — primo.aa...42.2Ex Libris Alma / Primo VE — Princeton tenancy (01PRI_INST)Princeton's library management and discovery layer runs on Ex Libris, with institution code 01PRI_INST: Alm...42.1SOLO library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)The Bodleian Libraries' discovery layer is Ex Libris Primo VE. Any Primo or Alma REST API reachable under t...41.4UCSF Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)UCSF Library's discovery layer, delivered on Ex Libris Primo. No UCSF-operated catalog API was found; the P...41.4
Thin 19 Limited public surface area
King's LibrarySearch (Ex Libris Primo)Library discovery for King's, on Ex Libris Primo. GET / returns 200 and redirects to /discovery/search?vid=...36.8Te Waharoa Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy)Te Waharoa is the library's discovery service, running on Ex Libris Primo backed by Alma on the institution...36.1LSE Library Search (Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma)LSE library discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE at librarysearch.lse.ac.uk, which CNAMEs to lse.primo.exli...35.8Curtin Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo/Alma tenant)Curtin Library's discovery layer, running on Ex Libris Primo over Alma. The collection and the holdings are...35.5BU Libraries Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)Boston University Libraries' discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo under Boston University's tenant view ...35.0UQ Library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)UQ's library discovery layer, a Primo VE tenancy on Ex Libris. No contract is saved under UQ — any Primo or...34.8Library Search (Ex Libris Alma / Primo) — tenancyRELATIONSHIP, NOT A CONTRACT. University of Leeds Libraries discovery and resource management run on the Ex...34.0Omni library discovery — Ex Libris Primo VE (tenant)Western Libraries' discovery layer is Omni, the Ontario Council of University Libraries' shared Ex Libris A...33.3NUsearch library discovery (Ex Libris Alma / Primo VE tenant)Library discovery and resource management on Ex Libris Alma and Primo VE, operated as a Nottingham tenant a...33.0FindIt@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 CNA...32.6Heriot-Watt Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)Library discovery and catalog search for Heriot-Watt's Edinburgh, Scottish Borders, Orkney, Dubai and Malay...32.5WINE Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenancy)Waseda University Library's discovery service, WINE, is an Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy under institution cod...32.4University of Sussex Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenant)Library discovery for Sussex runs on Ex Libris Primo VE as institution view 44SUS_INST / 44SUS_VU1, hosted ...31.1UOW Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy)The UOW Library runs on the Ex Libris Alma library services platform with the Primo discovery layer, on the...30.9University of Rochester Library Discovery — Ex Libris Primo VE tenancyRiver Campus Libraries discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE under the institution-specific view identifier ...30.2TAU Libraries Alma OAI-PMH Metadata HarvestingOpen Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0 service for the Tel Aviv University library r...27.8TAU Libraries Alma SRU SearchSRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) 1.2 search service over the Tel Aviv University library catalogue, served fro...27.8TAU Libraries Primo VE Discovery (DaTA Search)Tel Aviv University Libraries run Ex Libris Primo VE for catalogue discovery, branded "DaTA Search", instit...27.8UCL Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)UCL Library Services runs its catalog and discovery layer on Ex Libris Primo VE, at an institution-specific...26.6
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
USC Libraries Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE, Tenant)USC Libraries' catalog and discovery layer runs on Ex Libris Primo VE as institution view 01USC_INST:01USC ...25.0Library Discovery (Ex Libris Alma/Primo) — Bath tenancyThe University of Bath library catalogue runs on Ex Libris Alma with Primo VE discovery. The public front e...24.6Deakin University Library catalogue — Ex Libris tenantLibrary discovery for Deakin. library.deakin.edu.au resolves to 216.147.221.162, which whois attributes to ...20.0

Companies reaching this through an API (38)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Ex Libris” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Aalto University Boston University Curtin University Deakin University EPFL Harvard University Heriot-Watt University King's College London London School of Economics and Political Science Macquarie University Princeton University Seoul National University Technical University of Berlin Tel Aviv University TU Wien UCL University of Auckland University of Bath University of Birmingham University of California, San Francisco University of Cambridge University of Helsinki University of Hong Kong University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University of Leeds University of Maryland College Park University of New South Wales University of Nottingham University of Oxford University of Queensland University of Rochester University of Southern California University of Sussex University of Wollongong University of York Victoria University of Wellington Waseda University Western University

Score breakdown

Frequency
42.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.0
spread across providers
Quality lift
24.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Primo 32 co-occurrences Alma 12 co-occurrences Figshare 13 co-occurrences Shibboleth 34 co-occurrences DataCite 18 co-occurrences Research Computing 19 co-occurrences Research Repository 26 co-occurrences Identity Federation 34 co-occurrences

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