Callisto Pro vs Basic Features
Our Callisto 2.x service is available in two versions. Callisto Basic is a free subset of our data, useful to librarians for common troubleshooting scenarios with several popular publishers. Callisto Pro includes far more features and covers most of your e-resource subscriptions.
Callisto Basic is available ongoing free of charge to a limited number of domestic four-year universities and selected other institutions on a first come, first serve basis. Sign up now to make sure your institution is included in this offer!
| Features | Callisto Basic | Callisto Pro |
| Cost to qualified institutions | FREE | Request Quote |
| Automatically discovers your e-resource subscriptions |  | |
| Fast, easy setup (under 30 minutes is common) | | |
| Maintenance-free hosted web service | | |
| Ongoing subscription monitoring & troubleshooting for approx. 40 popular e-resource providers with ebooks, ejournals, databases | | + many more |
| Ongoing subscription monitoring & troubleshooting for nearly all your e-resource providers (hundreds supported and we’ll add others you have) | | |
| Locations: Number of IP networks and/or proxy servers for which Callisto will verify your subscriptions | 1 | Any number |
| Automatically identifies the subscriptions with incomplete access on your campus (scope and detail limited by the number of locations above) | | |
| Shows when you lose or gain access to e-resource subscriptions | | |
| Shows when you have the wrong institution’s subscriptions | | |
| Shows when your subscription identifiers change | | |
| Shows when your e-resource providers have downtime | | |
| EZproxy and VPN support | | |
| Alerts: Near real-time email alerts of all types of subscription changes, including titles added/removed, subscriptions added/lost, and much more. | | |
| Alert Options: Configurable email alert settings and filters for each recipient. | | |
| Title Tracking: Automatic daily detection of the individual titles, collections, and databases actually available in your subscriptions. Change alerts for adds/deletes. | | |
| Title Timeline: Historical tracking of your subscriptions’ titles, with the ability to see which changed between any points in time. Helps to update your library’s A-Z list, link resolver, LibGuides, OPAC, etc. | |