ALMA/Primo Training: Discovery-Primo

• *This is where you define what you want searchable: e-resources are activated/tracked. 

• Primo Central Index (PCI) is a centralized Primo index that encompasses hundreds of millions of records of global or regional significance that are harvested from primary and secondary publishers and aggregators. The number of records is constantly growing as additional data sources are added.

• The records include a mix of scholarly material – primarily articles and e-books – but also conference proceedings, newspaper articles, and more. In addition to citation metadata, many records include abstracts and some also include full text.

• The full text in PCI is indexed and used for discovery, not for delivery.

• API: application programming interface: used to pull data from different sources. An application programming interface (API) is a description of the way one piece of software asks another program to perform a service. The service could be granting access to data or performing a specified function.

In terms familiar to most users, a discovery layer is a Google-like search across all library resources. In library language, a discovery layer is a searchable meta-index of library resources, usually including article-level metadata, e-book metadata, metadata from library catalogs, open access resource metadata, etc., and it includes a means of retrieving resources in the result set through linking technology.