I’m pleased to announce that the latest release of Prism is available for you to preview. This release includes Augmented Discovery – EBSCO, and search by Unique Identifier.

Augmented Discovery – EBSCO

If you subscribe to electronic resources via EBSCO, we can configure Prism so that your users can choose to search your resources as indexed in the EBSCO Discovery Service, or to search your local catalogue as now. If you would wish to have this enabled or if you have any questions regarding this, please contact your Account Manager or email, libraries-sales@capita.co.uk.

Search by Unique Identifier

For exact access to a particular item a new search qualifier ‘uid:’ will allow you to search with the unique identifier of an item using a query like ‘uid:123456’. This will make it easier for library staff to look up a known item (currently you can start with another item and change the identifier in the URI). This feature also serves library staff using Soprano, since item search in Soprano uses the Prism search system.

To preview this release

To preview this release, please precede your tenancy URL at the new domain name with ‘demo.’, so: demo.capitadiscovery.co.uk/{your tenancy name}. If you have your own host name, you’ll need to use demo.capitadiscovery.co.uk instead.

Release to the live service

This version of Prism will be released to the live service on Tuesday 9^th July 2013. It is a short period in preview because for most libraries the impact of change is minimal (the addition of search by unique identifier), and because augmented discovery – EBSCO has been reviewed already by the initial implementers. It also allows us to move on more quickly towards release of a number of further developments.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment here on the Prism blog, on the Prism forum and Prism Ideas or contact your Account Manager or the Prism team directly.