1. Primo – Alma – Primo Central
Managing and Discovering Electronic Resources

2. In this presentation How patrons find and access electronic resources:
The Primo-Alma-Primo Central triangle
The search process: components & flow
Control the search scope & access

3. Electronic resources
The library’s electronic resources are managed in:
Discovery & delivery platform
Catalog
Subscription management
Link resolver
Online index of ~1,000,000,000 records

4. Primo Central records Primo Central ~1,000,000,000 records
Institution’s subset “Expand my results = Yes”
Available records “Expand my results = No”

5. How it works – setup Holdings File
1. Sign up for resource collections in PC (at implementation)
2. Maintain catalog and inventory in Alma (around the clock)
3. Holdings File publishing, harvesting & availability processing (weekly)

6. How it works - search Holdings File OpenURL PC Records + Availability
Get It / View It
Holdings File
a) Search PC records in Primo
b) Get results from PC according to login & availability
c) Primo sends OpenURL to Alma, to retrieve linking information
d) Alma returns Get It / View It mashup with inventory/linking information (according to inventory & Display Logic rules)

7. When you search
Article Search Is there any electrophysiological evidence for subliminal error processing?
Journal: Frontiers in neuroscience ISSN: Year: PC identifier: TN_medline
Get article records from

8. Configure your preferences in
When you search
Control the scope of your search: All registered PC resources / only full text available
Configure your preferences in

9. Primo sends Alma an OpenURL
Article information (name, author, identifiers)
Journal information (name, identifiers)

10. When you search…
Article Search Is there any electrophysiological evidence for subliminal error processing?
Journal: Frontiers in neuroscience ISSN: Year: PC identifier: TN_medline
Get link resolver results from
(control access)

11. Alma generates the View It tab

12. Alma allows control of services shown

13. Summary With Primo – Alma – Primo Central you can
Search the PC scope of your choice, with millions of available records in article-level resolution
Search with your familiar interface - Primo
Control activation and access in Alma
Use Alma Link Resolver, taking your inventory and preferences into account

14. Additional resources
Managing Electronic Resources in Alma Resource Management Guide Configuring Client Applications in Primo Central Index Configuration Guide Search Scopes in Primo Back Office Guide

15. Thank You!