A long-standing supporter of HELibTech, Open Fifth Open Source Library Solutions (formerly known as PTFS Europe) is the leading provider of open source library software in the UK.
Open Fifth works with open source software with the aim of making technology easy to use and administer for libraries and to enable library users. The company is active throughout all library sectors, including public, academic, health, governmental, museum, law and special libraries.
Open Fifth is an ISO 27001 accredited company based in the UK, with an active role in the global open source development community.
Current products available include:
Koha Library Management System
The most widely used library management system with over 15000 systems, Koha open source LMS is developed by libraries. Open Fifth offer hosting of Koha through a web-based client. As most Open Fifth Koha customers do not have dedicated systems staff, hosting is designed to reflect this offering lightweight administration and focused customer support.
To find out more you can visit Open Fifth’s Koha product page and HELibTech’s open source library systems and Koha page.
FOLIO Library Service Platform
Open Fifth offers hosting of the FOLIO open source library services platform (LSP). FOLIO is the only completely new system developed in the last 10 years designed by a collaboration of libraries, vendors and developers.
To find out more you can visit Open Fifth’s FOLIO product page and HELibTech’s open source library systems and FOLIO page.
Aspen Discovery
Aspen is an open source discovery tool and the first new discovery tool to be launched for a number of years. To find out more you can visit Open Fifth’s Aspen Discovery product page and HELibTech’s library discovery solutions page.
Knowvation Archive Management System
Knowvation, formerly known as ArchivalWare is the archival management system Open Fifth supports allowing institutions to store, manage, search, retrieve and browse a diverse set of content and digital objects through one system. Knowvation is web-based, file type agnostic (with over 200 file types in use) and full-text searchable.
To find out more, you can visit OpenFifth’s Knowvation product page and HELibTech’s archival management page.
Metabase Business Intelligence Tool
Metabase is an open source web based intelligence and analytics system to enable analysis and reporting of library metrics offering customisable dashboards and reports to monitor specific aspects of library activity.
To find out more you can visit Open Fifth’s Metabase product page.
Get in touch with Open Fifth Open Source Library Solutions
If you would like to know more about Open Fifth products and services you can get in touch with Lauren Purton, Marketing Executive at lauren.purton@openfifth.co.uk