Publisher Neutrality

We are open to integrations with both large vendors and small innovators and are proud to champion interoperability and an ecosystem of choice for libraries. We believe that libraries should be able to choose a combination of systems that work together to best suit them. Our suite of technologies work across publisher platforms to streamline access for your patrons. Find out how we stay publisher-neutral below.

Who decides what integrates with Talis products?

Whenever a library requests a particular vendor or publisher integration, we will do everything we can to make it work. We don’t need to wait until a library requests a particular integration though and are happy to respond to publisher requests to integrate. We are confident that these integrations can be turned around quickly, with the capabilities and resources we have. If that changes at any point, we will be transparent about how we prioritise particular integrations. We would take a customer-centric approach here and prioritise according to customer demand.

Who decides which content integrations are available to library users?

Whether the integration has been made available via direct integration with the publisher, or unilaterally by the library, which integrations are made available to library users is entirely at the library’s discretion.

Talis Aspire

We are happy to have a conversation with any publisher or vendor to help establish whether integration will be possible and the best method to use. Our usual requirements are:

That we can search an index of Local Control Numbers
That we can search an index of ISBNs
That we can search an index of ISSNs
That these searches will return bibliographic data. Either a MARC record or another representation of the record. AND that the Local Control Number is present in the record.
That we can use a Local Control Number to lookup live item holding availability.
That we can build a deep link to your library catalogue or discovery service using the previously captured Local Control Number
That we can build a deep link to an author and title search for finding other formats and editions of a title.

We may need to do some development work to support local specifics of a library system integration, but we have not come across a system that we cannot integrate with.