”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
DPS Single login & Authentication Technology
- Configure Database Lists
- Database Listings Display Options
- Customized – focused lists
- Multiple List Display Options (…”kids”, adults public and school library members)
- Web / Mobile Device Access
- Coordinated Authentication Options
- Discovery Search
- Consolidated use statistics
Access
Librarians use OPALS – DPS technology to list all of their subscription and information databases on one convenient Web page which can be accessed from desktops, tablets or mobile devices 24/7.
Multiple Database Listings – Adult – Kids – Custom Topics
DPS includes access to a number of visually attractive display options including a series specially designed for kids. Public and K-12 libraries can create listings appropriate for their members.
Authentication
DPS technology provides a number of authentication methods. Single login can use a patron’s ID number, an institution’s single login (popular in school settings), and /or use a library’s location code.
Discovery Search
The discovery search enables simultaneous searching of multiple and selected databases in addition to providing access to each database’s search engine, designed to access their specific information data and metadata.
Administration
DPS provides many utilities to manage subscriptions. These tools were designed for consortia, which manage as many as several hundred locations and where each location might have different information databases. It is also to tag databases to designate special collections or database sponsors (ex. government or association sponsors).
- Add or remove a database to or from multiple locations
- Add or remove multiple databases from a location
- Assign database access to specific locations
- Add database button / logo
- Assign usernames & passwords
- Select database display listing visual display option
- Configure multiple lists for a specific site
- Configure multiple lists
- Reports
DPS Stats Report Excerpt
Support
OPALS staff has many years experience supporting the complex communication and configuration challenges beneath the easy-to-use database listings and authentication libraries offer to their members. We help you through the very difficult, initial setup process, and continue to support as databases are added to and deleted from a libraries resources list.
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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!”
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