”We migrated to OPALS this year, an open-source ILS which is a fraction of the cost of proprietary systems. The transition was incredibly painless and the customer support is prompt, empathetic and thorough.”Academic Librarian
OPALS Ebook Management
OPALS technology manages eBooks and our support staff can provide helpful strategies for your library to acquire and use them.
eBook licensing variations and some authentication and access platforms can complicate eBook acquisitions, management and delivery. OPALS’ adaptable technology and consultants can help you understand these challenges and implement a strategy that will fit your budget, and deliver eBook resources to your members.
Free, quality E-Book collections
OPALS technology enables you to upload and catalog, free, Creative Commons and OER licensed eBooks. These resources are the easiest to accommodate, and are an excellent first step to providing digital resources to a library and learning community. Ask our consultants about OPALS eBook databases for academic, public, school and professional libraries containing more than two thousand (and growing) carefully selected and cataloged eBooks that you can add to your library.
eBook: Digital Rights Management – Circulation Management
OPALS programmers have developed a way to manage DRM licensed and free eBooks. The system keeps track of digital rights and the number of simultaneous readers permitted when such restrictions are necessary. When an authorized user “borrows” the E-Book… the E-Book has a time allotment in that file that will “return” the eBook for others to read. The system also allows “borrowers” to “return” an item before the assigned “due date” when finished, to make it available for others. DRM-free eBooks can be read simultaneously by an unlimited number of library members.
E-Book Collections: Vendor subscription collections
Some OPALS libraries supplement their print collections with subscriptions to vendor eBook collections. These eBook collections can be relatively small to hundreds of thousands of titles. OPALS can synchronize access to these eBook resources through OPALS public access catalog, and a variety of authentication options both on and off campus.
Search & Display eBooks
Authenticate Access to eBooks
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View and Read eBooks 24/7
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eBook Access – Sip2 Protocol – eBook Shelves
OPALS eBook management technology can also implement Sip2 protocol authentication used by eBook service providers such as Overdrive. The OPAC can also authenticate access to popular school library eBook vendor “Bookshelves” providing your library members with one convenient access point for the library’s print, eBook and information database resources 24/7. Purchase or provide access to free resources without being tied to one vendor.
Search and Display eBooks
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Authenticate Access Using Sip2 Protocol
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eBook Cataloging
OPALS MARC editor provides eBook specific, MARC (RDA) cataloging templates to enable you to add titles to OPALS, for your members to access.
Batch uploading MARC records
OPALS can batch import MARC eBook records provided by vendors or eBook subscription services.
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”MediaFlex, which offers and maintains OPALS for us, has been consistently the most responsive company in terms of customer support. Having worked with them since 2007, we continue to enjoy a close working relationship.”
School Librarian -
”Thanks to OPALS, 85-90% of our incoming back-office tasks are now smoothly handled automatically – against the former only 10%. We did not experience any troubling side-effects of any kind during/after implementation”
Bazh-GFx Academic Librarian”I can't believe that in an era like this I can still pick up the phone and get connected right away with people who are directly running the business and solve the problem right then and there. It is so rare and I deeply appreciate that! I will reach out to a few other small schools in my area and let them know about your company!”
School Librarian -
”We migrated to OPALS this year, an open-source ILS which is a fraction of the cost of proprietary systems. The transition was incredibly painless and the customer support is prompt, empathetic and thorough.”
Academic Librarian”MediaFlex, which offers and maintains OPALS for us, has been consistently the most responsive company in terms of customer support. Having worked with them since 2007, we continue to enjoy a close working relationship.”
School Librarian -
”Thanks to OPALS, 85-90% of our incoming back-office tasks are now smoothly handled automatically – against the former only 10%. We did not experience any troubling side-effects of any kind during/after implementation”
Bazh-GFx Academic Librarian”I can't believe that in an era like this I can still pick up the phone and get connected right away with people who are directly running the business and solve the problem right then and there. It is so rare and I deeply appreciate that! I will reach out to a few other small schools in my area and let them know about your company!”
School Librarian -
