OCLC PICA portal solutions have proven themselves as the single search (often referred to as a federated search) environment of choice for hundreds of libraries across the world. Our portals provide powerful and elegant access to multiple data sources available both locally and remotely, while offering your users more opportunities to locate the information they require.
You can present your end users an Internet feel with the safeguard of searching 'professionally approved' content, so that a user may find their information in your catalogue, e-resources or approved external websites. In addition to ‘normal’ portal solutions, we offer a special portal solution for the eGovernment sector plus an affordable hosted federated search solution.
The largest union catalogue with over 65 million records and over 1 billion holdings is WorldCat, which OCLC PICA represents in Europe and Southern Africa. The Open WorldCat programme allows you to make your library’s holdings visible all over the world through collaboration with Web search engines.
With OCLC PICA you have a number of solutions at your disposal that are tailored to optimize serving your end users. Like our extremely fast, integrated search, request and alerting applications. Or our ILS add-ons for self-service, SMS-alerts and linguistic search help and full-text linking.
Also we provide all kinds of libraries with eContent solutions that support Web-based research, reference and learning. We combine the traditions of the library system with the latest in electronic publishing and content delivery. After pioneering the eBook category our solution is now proven in more than 14,000 libraries worldwide and features over 100,000 titles.
