October 20, 2014
The journals, e-books and reference databases of this major German aggregator are available to mutual customers
Jerusalem, Israel—October 20, 2014. Ex Libris® Group, a leading provider of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that all journals and the majority of reference databases hosted on GBI-Genios’ wiso-net platform have been indexed in the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly electronic resources, making the content easily discoverable via the Ex Libris Primo discovery service. In the coming months, the e-books hosted on wiso-net will also be accessible via Primo. The wiso-net platform includes specialized information in economics; social sciences; technical studies; psychology; and law, and is used in more than 85% of economic and social science universities in German-speaking countries.
Ralf Hennemann, director of marketing and sales at GBI-Genios, commented: ”Enabling our academic and reference content to be searchable in the Primo Central Index is an important way of boosting the discoverability of our content. We are pleased to partner with Ex Libris in enabling students and library users in Europe to find and access the diverse content that we aggregate from hundreds of primary publishers.”
”I am very pleased that this major European aggregator has decided to contribute its content to the Primo Central Index,” remarked Michal (Michelle) Gindi, director of publisher relations at Ex Libris. ”Libraries in German-speaking countries represent a large segment of our customer community, and the addition of this information provider helps further our commitment to including and offering regional content in the Primo Central Index.”
About GBI-Genios Deutsche Wirtschaftsdatenbank GmbH
GBI-Genios is a leading provider of electronic business information in German-speaking countries. As the daughter of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Handelsblatt Publishing Group, the company provides its customers for more than 35 years with reliable information and services related to the topics eContent, business intelligence, market and customer knowledge.
GBI-Genios provides one-stop access to:
· the contents of the relevant German daily and weekly press
· Industry information from a wide range of renowned journals
· Company information and contact with millions of Companies
· Market and industry studies with rankings, reports and statistics
· Tenders from home and abroad
· people information, business books and more
About Ex Libris
Ex Libris is a leading provider of automation solutions for academic, national, and research libraries. Offering the only comprehensive product suite for electronic, digital, and print materials, Ex Libris provides efficient, user-friendly products that serve the needs of libraries today and will facilitate their transition into the future. Ex Libris maintains an impressive customer base consisting of thousands of sites in more than 90 countries on six continents.
Dedicated to developing creative solutions in close collaboration with customers, Ex Libris enables libraries to maximize productivity and efficiency and, at the same time, greatly enhance the user experience. By empowering users to discover and obtain the information they need, libraries ensure their position as the bridge to knowledge.
