7 things you need to know about Source...
1. Every UnityWeb subscriber will automatically be switched to Talis Source for free discovery from 19th May. What could be easier than using your existing username and password for what was a paid-for service, and using it as a free service?
2. Those libraries that choose the £500 Talis Source interlending package will get 2 weeks free access to the Service. The subscription officially starts on 1st June. So any concern that they are not going to find Talis Source offering exactly the same level of service as they enjoyed previously, should be allayed with this two week grace period.
3. The software remains the same as UnityWeb with only minor cosmetic changes to reflect the name change, which means that staff do not have to take time out to learn a completely new system.
4. With the commitment to make one catalogue contribution in the space of a year, comes free look-up of the bibliographic and holdings database of over 41 million holdings in the UK. And that number is growing all the time as the range of libraries wishing to participate diversifies.
5. By subscribing or contributing to Talis Source you are in no way restricted in your right to contribute data or subscribe to any other ILL service. As we have made clear, data that is contributed to the Platform, which Source is using, is similarly available for other software vendors to use in their own applications.
6. If you have chosen to subscribe to the OCLC Pica UnityUK service you are not obliged to cancel your Talis Source subscription or remove your contribution. Each individual library is free to make its own decisions and subscribe/contribute to both if they choose.
7. Talis Source has now been released to Hampshire, Portsmouth and Cheshire. They are sending requests via Source as we speak, and the site will become available for all to use on 19th May.
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