Our Story
Library Impact, Research Outcomes, Student Engagement
Ex Libris is a product family, proudly part of Clarivate, a global company headquartered in London and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. At Clarivate, we believe in the value of education and research. Our mission is to allow academic institutions to create, manage, and share knowledge. With better tools, our customers achieve their goals and further academic initiatives.
The
Ex Libris
Difference
A tradition of innovation in higher-ed
Built-in product openness and extendable solutions
True user-driven collaboration and partnership with our customer community
Advanced, “born-SaaS” solutions and strong technological backbone
Institutions using ex libris cloud
Installed in more than 90 countries
Data centers
api calls monthly through the ex libris cloud platform
The
Ex Libris Value
for You
librarians, researchers, students, and instructors
research through unified workflows and a wealth of scholarly content
libraries’ strategic role in academic activity
student engagement and success through personalized innovative services
decision-making for libraries and research with meaningful analytics
value of library collections and services
Our
History
The Aleph team is assembled at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ex Libris is founded as a corporate entity developing the Aleph library solution
First European subsidiary established in Germany
North American office established
- SFX is acquired
- Launch of MetaLib
First Asian subsidiary established in China
Launch of DigiTool
Launch of Primo
- Acquisition of Endeavor, creator of the Voyager Integrated Library System
- Launch of Rosetta
- First North American Data Center established in Chicago
Launch of bX
- European Data Center established in the Netherlands
- Fourth North American Data Center established for SaaS support
Launch of Alma
Singapore Data Center established
- Acquisition of oMbiel, creator of the campusM mobile platform
- Launch of Leganto
- Ex Libris is acquired by ProQuest
- Summon, 360, and Intota join the Ex Libris portfolio
- Data Center established in China
- Data Center established in Canada
- Alma reaches 1,000 institutions
- RefWorks and Pivot join the Ex Libris portfolio
- Launch of Esploro
- Acquisition of Research Research Ltd.
- Launch of the Rapido resource sharing solution
- Acquisition of RapidILL
- Data Center established in Sydney, Australia
- Launch of COVID-19 initiatives
- Virtual ELUNA and IGeLU conferences
ProQuest (including the Ex Libris product family) is acquired by Clarivate