ProQuest

• A fully-hosted subscription model includes

• Web 2.0 social networking

• Enhanced authority subject searching

• Complimentary integration with 360 Search search subscription

• Two additional local data sets/local collections

• reports that highlight usage statistics such as most popular searches and top orphan queries

• Staff administrative control panel

• Complies with accessibility standards including ADA/Section 508

• More than 700 libraries use the AquaBrowser discovery layer

• Library-configurable relevancy ranking

• Consortia support

• Quick and easy-to-use results faceting

• Unlimited facet categories

• Completely configurable by the library and custom mapped to the library’s MARC data

• Collapse/Expand facets

• “Did you mean?” suggestions for queries with no results and misspelled terms

• Automatic stemming and intelligent stop word handling

• Breadcrumb trail with option to add or save facet for next search

• Identifies found words and hit highlighting so users easily understand why a result appears

• Enriched content from Syndetics, and book cover images from LibraryThing

• RSS feeds

• Rich full record display

• Real-time availability status for catalog items

• Google book previews

• “Add This” widget for email, bookmarking and sharing with social networking sites

• Syndetic enriched content

• Powerful, configurable advanced search

• Author and subject browse tree

• ILS support

• Configurable visual style to maintain a similar look and feel to its web presence

• Users can print or email items, or export to popular bibliographic management tools

• Internationalized user interfaces: English, Catalan, Dutch, French (France), Frisian, German, Maori, Norwegian, Russian, Samoan, Spanish, and Swedish.

Please see the 'Discovery - Who uses what systems' section for an updated list.

• Birkbeck University of London - migrated to VuFind October 2012

• University of Edinburgh: http://aquabrowser.lib.ed.ac.uk/

• Dumfries and Galloway Council: http://library.dumgal.gov.uk/abl/

• Warwick County Council:http://librarycatalogue.warwickshire.gov.uk/ABwarwick/

• Newcastle College:http://aqua.ncl-coll.ac.uk/isearchnewcastle/

• Pembokshire County Council:http://212.219.142.110/ABPEM/

• Scottish Borders:http://librarysearch.scotborders.gov.uk/ab/default.ashx

• Leeds Trinity:http://lib.leedstrinity.ac.uk/ablltas/

• Dudley Metropolitan Council (ICE): http://ice.medialab.nl/
  
  

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• AquaBrowser Blog: http://www.medialab.nl/about-us/blog/