Access wherever, and however you like
Talis Aspire is designed from the ground up to be accessed on a range of devices including laptops, tablets and mobile phones, from anywhere at any time.
Talis Aspire
We make it easy to create and manage resource lists that support your university and library strategies.
Find out more about Talis Aspire and how we can help you.
What our customers are saying
For the University of Gloucestershire, Talis Aspire is much more than just reading list software. It is central to our Academic Strategy and is now part of a three-year Learning Design Programme. As the tool that brings together learning resources from a range of sources and embeds them into our Virtual Learning Environment, Talis is driving our ambition for every student to have access to a rich set of resources.
At the University of Auckland, Talis Aspire is a key component of our collections strategy. Recently we moved from just-in-case collection development to a just-in-time approach to developing our collections. We run daily reports to ensure that our purchases align directly with current teaching and learning at the university. This works particularly well for providing our undergraduate students with resources for their courses.
Why use Talis Aspire?
Designed and built by the Experience Team at Talis ❤️
Accessible by design
Using our own dedicated User Experience team, Talis Aspire is designed from the ground up using the latest UX standards to ensure access and improved experience for all users. We aim for AAA WCAG accessibility rating wherever possible, and achieve at least AA rating.
Resilient and robust
At Talis we build and support our systems in house using the latest technologies. Our system architecture ensures Talis Aspire is always available, no matter how busy.
Expert support
Our specialist Talis Services Team is always there to help. Supporting you from the moment you start working with us and throughout your subscription, tailored to support your aims and needs.
Integrate with existing systems
Talis Aspire provides the 'glue' that integrates with and adds value to your existing library and university systems, helping to bring these together for users. Nowhere is this more important than with your Virtual Learning Environment (Learning Management System), ensuring content is in the workflows of your students and faculty.
Copyright scanning compliance
Talis Aspire provides the option to deeply integrate your copyright scanning processes, by either using the Talis Aspire copyright workflows or through the integration of third party solutions. Our aim is to provide access to fully compliant content seamlessly integrated with Talis Aspire resource lists, providing ease of access for students and efficient workflows for faculty and library users.
Join a powerful and growing community
The growing international Talis Aspire community helps us shape our service. By joining this community, you’ll benefit from all the collective experience of your peers.
Powerful analytics and management information
Talis Aspire helps you understand clearly how students use your reading lists and resources, helping you to make more informed resourcing decisions.
We provide analytics dashboards supported by a powerful data warehouse to support customisable local reporting as well as wider institutional learning or learner analytics programmes.
Who benefits from Talis Aspire?
Students
Students live 'online' and access to their learning resources is no different. They expect to find the relevant information in the right places. Talis allows you to transform the student experience by putting resources at the heart of their learning. With a range of functionality designed to help students organise their study, Talis Aspire really is an essential tool.
Faculty and Course Leaders
Talis Aspire is a proven tool, streamlining processes and supporting teaching. With its flexible structure and intuitive interface, faculty are able to use Talis Aspire in a way that suits them, their students, and their teaching methods. Doing things once in Talis Aspire and share anywhere. Add in annotations, citation styles, Learning Management System integration and analytics, and Talis Aspire becomes their one-stop tool for teaching/learning resources.
The Library
Libraries want to get the right resources to the right users, always with an eye on budgets. Talis Aspire is the bridge between what is being used to teach, what students need to access, and what libraries need to provide or support. Of course, Talis Aspire provides class-leading acquisitions, reporting, and copyright management workflows, but it is more than that. Talis Aspire helps to position the library at the heart of the teaching & learning experience for all users and stakeholders.
Modern management information dashboards, and access to comprehensive analytics, are further enhancing the role of libraries across their institutions and helping them to deliver against key strategic aims.
The University
If students, faculty, and library are all benefiting from Talis Aspire, so is the wider institution. Talis has a key role in supporting a wide range of key strategic drivers, from cost-saving to student experience, retention, digital-first, Teaching & Learning, Open Access, and copyright compliance.
Talis Aspire news from the blog
Bento Boxes for course info: How Victoria University of Wellington make it easy to access reading lists wherever the student is
Victoria University of Wellington built a “bento box” for their students, allowing them easier access to the tools and materials they need for each course. The goal was to provide a simple pointer for students to the different tools and support materials, in a way that could be reused in…
5 Ways the library can support online learning
If the last 12 months has taught us anything, it is that online learning is here to stay and needs to improve. Whilst libraries may not be directly delivering the teaching, they are (or should be) pivotal to the user experience, delivering value to students, faculty, and the…
The shifting landscape of online resources and making decisions post-pandemic: An interview with University Librarian Ken Dick
PerlegoWe spoke to Ken Dick, the University Librarian at the University of Portsmouth to find out how they adapted when faced with a library closure, and how they are evolving their practices looking forward. What has been the biggest challenge of the pandemic? Since March we’ve had 3 different service…
Provisioning Online Resources: Old Problem, New Solution
PerlegoProvisioning online resources is nothing new. For most of our universities, it has been a top priority in recent years, with many introducing e-first policies. We have been able to support this shift to online with Talis Aspire, but when COVID-19 happened, the ability to provide a range of high-quality,…
Talis Webinars in 2020
In 2020 we have seen some fantastic webinars and discussions, and had the opportunity to bring our community together to share best practice and experience from their peers. We have had a total of 12 different universities speaking about a wide range of topics on our…
Does your Talis Aspire branding meet accessibility guidelines?
At Talis, we want to ensure that all users have an enjoyable and efficient experience when using our tools, whatever their needs are. You may have seen that we have added enhancements over recent months, to support accessibility within Talis Aspire. These include button hover text…
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