Category: Service Updates

Support for the following E-Resource Providers was updated or added: AAPG Datapages Combined Publications ABC-Clio Databases ABC-Clio eBooks Access Engineering Acta Sanctorum Adam Matthew Archive Explorer African American Biographical Database Alexander Street Press Collections (new interface) Antimicrobe Archive Finder ASCE Library AskART The Artists’ Bluebook Birds of North America Black Studies Center Books in Print Professional Brill Reference Works C19: The Nineteenth Century Index Cairn.info Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections China People’s Daily Choice Reviews Online CINDAS Cold Spring Harbor Protocols CQPress Electronic Library Dictionary of American Regional English Dictionary of Irish Biography DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) Duxiu Dyabola ebrary…

Many enhancements to Callisto were released in June.   The functionality improvements and two fixes were based on feedback from our customers.  Included: The integration support with EZproxy was enhanced to work properly even at institutions using customized EZproxy response pages. A new Provider details screen in the dashboard displays the URL(s) currently being used by Callisto to verify your subscriptions.  In the cases where an institution must use an embedded code in their URLs (e.g. for Gale databases), this custom URL is displayed. The Probe software has been enhanced so we can support additional providers and more title-level tracking that…

The October update included adjustments to how and when related events detected by Callisto get linked together.  On occasion, e-resource providers exhibit oscillations between working normally and failing.  This Callisto update allows the system to link such outages together into a sort of “master event list”, so that Callisto won’t report all those oscillations via alert emails, and won’t show it as fixed by the provider until they return to normal for a longer period of time. We also made improvements to the variety of subscription identifiers we can track.

September’s updates included many internal software improvements to expand compatibility with a wider variety of e-resource providers.

July’s software upgrade included user interface improvements for the Title Reconciliation feature.

New Tier of Service As of June, we provide a new tier of service.  Callisto Basic™ is a feature/data limited version of the full product (now called Callisto Pro™ to distinguish them). FREE OFFER:  Most higher-education institutions qualify to use Callisto Basic as an ongoing free service!  This offer is currently open to 4-year and graduate colleges or universities in the U.S on a first-come first-served basis.  Foreign libraries and other types of domestic institutions are welcome to inquire and may be included. Get started with the free version today and upgrade to Pro later when you want.  A feature…

New feature: “Title Timeline” view added Building on the March enhancements, the second phase of new title-level functionality in Callisto is now available.  You now have a “Title Timeline” view for each provider where it is relevant.  In the example image 1, you can see one set of titles has been selected (red dashed line).  The system automatically indicated (with yellow) the other title sets that contain the same exact title information without having to drill in for details.  At that point one more click drills in to either a single set of titles (from one access route at one…