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Next Generation Research Information Hub: Esploro Smart Harvesting In 2021—Enabling Comprehensive, Accurate, And Automated Coverage Of Your Scholarly Assets And Expertise, Dave Stout

Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL)

Historically, a primary challenge for repository managers has been successfully capturing and exposing as close to 100% of an institution’s research assets and activities as possible. It is traditionally a resource- and time-intensive endeavor. Ex Libris’s Esploro addresses this challenge head-on with our Smart Harvesting AI, first by leveraging the industry leading Central Discovery Index (CDI) (which drives the Primo and Summon discovery services), and second by automating the routines needed to harvest repository content. The CDI provides clients immediate access to an incredible foundation of over 4.5 billion records from which they can populate their Esploro IR and comprehensively …