A Broader menu beckons in the LMS Market
September 17th, 2009 | 
Author: In the light of the UK Conference on open source software for libraries, Ken Chad reports on the growing interest which contrasts sharply with the situation only two years ago.
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OSS Projects
- Biblios – Open Source Cataloguing Originally created as part of the 2007 Google Summer of Code program, ‡biblios is now developed and maintained by LibLime as well as an active and growing community.
- dbWiz – Federated Searching dbWiz is an exciting federated search tool that allows users to select an appropriate starting point when doing research.
- Evergreen ILS Evergreen is an enterprise-class library automation system that helps library patrons find library materials, and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries.
- Koha ILS Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand t
- LibraryFind An open source metasearch application developed by librarians for libraries, built with Ruby on Rails.
- OPALS an OSS LMS from Media Flex. Used by several hundred school and public libraries in New York State and Canada. Supports searching and indexing in Hebrew and Arabic as well as many other languages.
- Pazpar2 GPL metasearch middleware from Index Data: an interface independent metasearch engine that can parallel search more than a hundred resources simultaneously.
- VuFind VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library’s resources by replacing the traditional OPAC.
- Yaz YAZ is a programmers’ toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50/SRW/SRU clients and servers. Z39.50-2003 (version 3) as well as SRW/SRU version 1.1 are supported in both the client and server roles.
- Zebra Search Engine Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and retrieval engine. It reads structured records in a variety of input formats (eg. email, XML, MARC) and allows access to them through exact boolean search expressions and relevance-r
- Zotero – Citation Reader Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.