Technology has unlocked a universe of digital resources. How does your library manage them? Accessing, storing, describing, and managing this information can be confusing and time-consuming—but it doesn't have to be. Fully integrated or available as stand-alone products, Innovative has the answer. We provide you with a solution that ensures that your digital collections are well-organized and accessible to your users.

Content Access Service (CASE)
Electronic Resource Management
Millennium Access Plus (MAP)

Millennium Media Management

MetaData Builder

Symposia

XML Harvester

Content Access Service (CASE)

Innovative's Content Access Service (CASE) delivers the comprehensive and accurate e-journal coverage data needed for first-rate user access and library efficiency. This suite of offerings includes The CASE Coverage Data Service to complement link resolvers and ERM systems, The CASE MARC Record Service for in-depth, pre-cataloged metadata, and the CASE HTML A to Z List for an accurate online browse screen.

Each service is available with the CASE Profile Manager to create a summary of your sources with a sophisticated, yet simple, Web-based interface. CASE is offered to Innovative customers and the library community at large. Users of Millennium will find it a valuable complement to Electronic Resource Management and WebBridge LR.

Electronic Resource Management

As information resources increasingly become digitized, libraries are looking for tools to efficiently manage electronic resources. Innovative’s Electronic Resource Management solves the problem of having to develop local control mechanisms for managing licensed resources such as e-journals, Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases, and full-text databases.

The American Journal of Evolution in the online catalog.

Fully integrated with the Millennium system or fully functional available as a stand-alone product, Innovative’s Electronic Resource Management enables libraries to keep track of their e-journal licensing and purchasing details using a single system, streamlining workflows, and eliminating the need to maintain separate databases.

Electronic Resource Management enables libraries to:

• Manage licensing and purchasing details in a single interface
• Provide additional fields for storage of relevant data For staff, this may include: URL, username/password, IP addresses, contact information, etc.
• For patrons, this may include: printing permissions, interlibrary loan availability, etc.
• Display information about electronic resources in WebPAC Pro for public services staff and patrons
• Define relationships between aggregators or publishers and the resources they provide
• Manage payments and other financial and subscription details

Millennium Access Plus (MAP)

MAP is an integrated solution that manages access to information resources, quickly guiding patrons and staff to Internet content, while protecting the rights of the library and content providers. MAP leverages resource selection decisions and integrates the searching power of WebPAC Pro and Millennium staff modules into a suite of resource access management tools.

MAP is made up of three independent components:

WebBridge LR

Research Pro

Web Access Management

Together, these provide libraries with tools to manage and control access to all of their information resources by providing contextual linking, multi-protocol meta-searching, and authentication.

WebBridge LR

WebBridge LR is an online patron-service tool that provides OpenURL linking to full-text article content from citations in external reference databases. It facilitates linking to the appropriate and available electronic copy by matching
against what journals you have and their coverage dates.
When users find a citation without full-text, WebBridge LR efficiently leads them to the resource where full-text is available. With WebBridge LR, they get where they’re going without having to think about it. It’s what today’s users
expect from the web.

With e-resources taking a huge part of library budgets, WebBridge LR is what you need to make sure they are all visible and used. Innovative’s solution links to a wide variety of sources: from subscription databases and public websites,
to reference resources, to locally developed collections—even exposure through Google Scholar searches. WebBridge LR also provides users access to an “Article Finder” feature for locating full-text content for known citations.

Research Pro: Next-Generation Federated Search

Research Pro uses sophisticated technologies to provide a rich and highly usable environment for searching across library-selected resources. Key features and technologies include:

• Tabbed-browse display that groups results by target resource
• AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) for increased fluidity and continuity of search sessions
• Innovative's smart-search algorithm for efficient delivery of information from subscription databases
• Searching a group of resources without the need to re-select them
• Saving searches for future use in the My Millennium personalization suite.

Library staff can easily change Research Pro's "look and feel" with Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) technology, customizable forms, Web options, and tokens.  Library staff can also easily identify which resources should be searched by default, giving them the flexibility to organize resources by subject or material type.

Web Access Management: Authentication

This is a solution for libraries wanting to provide remote patron verification to licensed databases. Web Access Management uses a proxy server to control access to licensed Web servers, providing resource access to valid patrons searching from home, from the office, or from anywhere in the world. Web Access Management fully controls the access and authentication issues that are so important to libraries serving a geographically distributed user base.

• Provides patrons anywhere in the world with access to licensed commercial online databases and electronic journals.
• Authenticates remote users on a database-by-database basis by using library-defined criteria and the existing patron database.
• Generates detailed usage statistics in a graphical format.
• Supports two different methods of proxying: a rewriting proxy and a browser-configured proxy

MetaData Builder

Libraries are looking for ways to describe digital collections effectively and efficiently. MetaData Builder allows libraries to describe and store digital collections using a variety of metadata schemes such as EAD or Dublin Core.

Features of the MetaData Builder include:

• Support for the storage of metadata structures and formats (e.g., EAD, Dublin Core, and XML)
• Ability to enter, batch load, store, and export XML in a defined metadata scheme
• Indexing and retrieval on the various metadata schemes
• Web-based display appropriate to both object- and collection-level metadata
• Links digital objects with appropriate metadata (e.g., image database with Dublin Core or digital archives with EAD)

Millennium Media Management

Millennium Media supports the creation of a local media collection (e.g., archival material, photographs, newspaper clippings, electronic reserve material, lecture notes, or audio files). The digital collection can be stored in the library's format of choice and is fully integrated into WebPAC Pro for searching and viewing. Users can easily access the wide range of media that the library chooses to digitize and make available.

Copyright and Access, in conjunction with Millennium Media, is used to provide controlled access to digital collections such as electronic reserve material, local historical image collections, distance learning information, or curriculum guides and bibliographies.

Millennium Media Management also provides a robust and feature rich Electronic Course Reserves module. Media can be associated with course records and copyright, and patron authentication provides the tools libraries need for full electronic course reserve management.

Symposia

Symposia provides all a community needs to collect, manage, and promote its knowledge assets more effectively than ever before. This digital repository solution features Web-based searching and access to the electronic output of an institution, intuitive Web-based submission of new documents, and optional Web-based mediation of publication. Various metadata structures are supported (including Qualified Dublin Core and METS) and the metadata may be harvested by any OAI-PMH service provider (such as Google).

A staff client allows for granular control of privileges for submission and publication, as well as control of access by the public. Documents are preserved in their exact form and can be organized by community and collection to represent the full complexity of your institution's hierarchy. At last, an institutional repository can be created by libraries with all the sophistication and ease of use demanded by librarians.

XML Harvester

Innovative's XML Harvester leverages XML technology to provide an automated cataloging tool which can create library records from metadata records stored on servers anywhere in the world. The XML Harvester unifies access to different XML databases by integrating external records into the library catalog and making it a single repository for the library's different digital collections.

Features of XML Harvester include:

• A crawler that can harvest XML records from any server according to library-defined filters
• A parser that creates MARC records from XML documents encoded in schemes such as EAD or Dublin Core
• Library-defined parameters such as sorting and frequency of loading
• Leverages standards such as the OAI (Open Archives Initiative)

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