The world's leading discovery layer provides the most compelling patron experience
Expands searches using context-sensitive associations, translations, and spelling variants in the “word cloud”
Integrates your library’s authority control file to automatically expand searches with “see” and “see-also” references so users don’t need to know exact search terms
Finds different inflections of verbs and nouns and provides “Did you mean?” suggestions for queries with no results using the Stemming feature
Enables customization of relevancy ranking using a mix of hit count, field weighting, and/or other factors provided by the indexed data (such as popularity, item count, etc.)
Uses found words and hit highlighting so users easily understand why a result appears
Enables flexible sorting and customizable faceting so users can zoom in by library branch, format, year, source, author, series title, topic, location, genre, time frame, setting, and any other data element
Integrates with Syndetics ICE to enrich full records with book jacket art, enable table of contents searching, and combine like records using FRBR-ization (optional)
Incorporates millions of tags from LibraryThing for immediate functionality (optional)
Incorporates Google book reviews and LibraryThing reviews (optional)
Enables the “word cloud” to be switched into an author or subject browser
Provides option for refining based on availability; offers real time status for catalog items
Enables users to lock refine facets into place over multiple queries or remove facet selections from a crumb trail
Offers hundreds of refinement choices sortable by hits or alphabet in Full Screen Refine mode
Enables language independence: options for full translation of refinement choices
Complies with accessibility standards including section 508 and WCAG
Enables patrons to dynamically interact with library content using My Discoveries social networking
Operates on mobile devices
