Library Hub Discover is a
union catalog
A union catalog is a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries. Union catalogs have been created in a range of media, including book format, microform, cards and more recently, networked electronic databases. Pr ...
operated by
Jisc
Jisc is a United Kingdom not-for-profit company that provides network and IT services and digital resources in support of further and higher education institutions and research as well as not-for-profits and the public sector.
History
T ...
. It replaces
Copac
Copac (originally an acronym of Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues) was a union catalogue which provided free access to the merged online catalogues of many major research libraries and specialist libraries in the United Kingdom and I ...
and
SUNCAT
The Serials Union Catalogue, or SUNCAT, was a freely available source of information about serials holdings in the United Kingdom, for the UK research community.
For both electronic and print serials, including academic journals, periodicals, n ...
. Its user interface is centred around a simple
search engine
A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...
-like query box.
References
External links
* https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/
Academic libraries in the United Kingdom
British digital libraries
Jisc
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Databases in the United Kingdom
Higher education in the United Kingdom
Library cataloging and classification
Online databases
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