Serials Solutions
Encyclopedia
Serials Solutions is a division of ProQuest
that provides e-resource access and management services (ERAMS
) to libraries. These products enable librarians to more easily manage electronic resources that serve the needs of their patrons.
Serials Solutions incorporated in March 2000. The business grew from a four-man operation run out of the McCrackens' basement to a multi-million dollar company in the Fremont
neighborhood of Seattle, Washington
.
During the company's first year of operation, co-founder Peter McCracken worked on this emerging company while simultaneously working full-time as a reference librarian at the University of Washington
's Odegaard Undergraduate Library.
(Information and Learning division). In 2007, ProQuest Information and Learning was acquired by CSA
and the Cambridge Information Group and briefly became ProQuest CSA before the company settled on the original ProQuest name as a "new" brand.
As part of the ProQuest-CSA acquisition, Serials Solutions merged with Ulrich's and became the primary retailer of the Ulrich's services Ulrichsweb.com and Ulrich's Serials Analysis System.
In May 2005, Jane Burke, former CEO of Endeavor Information Systems became the head of Serials Solutions. Burke is known for leading successful library technology ventures.
Serials Solutions headquarters is currently located in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle.
ProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based electronic publisher and microfilm publisher.It provides archives of sources such as newspapers, periodicals, dissertations, and aggregated databases of many types. Its content is estimated at 125 billion digital pages...
that provides e-resource access and management services (ERAMS
ERAMS
ERAMS are a way of thinking about library management to help libraries optimize the access, usage, data, and workflows of electronic library collections in the physical and digital library.- Background :...
) to libraries. These products enable librarians to more easily manage electronic resources that serve the needs of their patrons.
History
Serials Solutions was conceived of in 1999 over beers by brothers Steve McCracken, Mike McCracken, and Peter McCracken after recognizing that providing relief to the frustrations of library patrons in navigating electronic resources was a profitable domain to pursue.Serials Solutions incorporated in March 2000. The business grew from a four-man operation run out of the McCrackens' basement to a multi-million dollar company in the Fremont
Fremont, Seattle, Washington
Fremont is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. Originally a separate city, it was annexed to Seattle in 1891. Named after Fremont, Nebraska, the hometown of two of its founders, L. H. Griffith and E...
neighborhood of Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
.
During the company's first year of operation, co-founder Peter McCracken worked on this emerging company while simultaneously working full-time as a reference librarian at the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
's Odegaard Undergraduate Library.
ProQuest
In 2004, Serials Solutions became a division of ProQuestProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based electronic publisher and microfilm publisher.It provides archives of sources such as newspapers, periodicals, dissertations, and aggregated databases of many types. Its content is estimated at 125 billion digital pages...
(Information and Learning division). In 2007, ProQuest Information and Learning was acquired by CSA
CSA (database company)
CSA Illumina is a provider of online databases, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is now a division of ProQuest, which in turn is now a subsidiary of the Cambridge Information Group...
and the Cambridge Information Group and briefly became ProQuest CSA before the company settled on the original ProQuest name as a "new" brand.
As part of the ProQuest-CSA acquisition, Serials Solutions merged with Ulrich's and became the primary retailer of the Ulrich's services Ulrichsweb.com and Ulrich's Serials Analysis System.
In May 2005, Jane Burke, former CEO of Endeavor Information Systems became the head of Serials Solutions. Burke is known for leading successful library technology ventures.
Serials Solutions headquarters is currently located in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle.
Product list
- Summon (Web Scale Discovery)
- 360 Link OpenURLOpenURLOpenURL is a standardized format of Uniform Resource Locator intended to enable Internet users to more easily find a copy of a resource that they are allowed to access...
link resolver - 360 Search Federated searchFederated searchFederated search is an information retrieval technology that allows the simultaneous search of multiple searchable resources. A user makes a single query request which is distributed to the search engines participating in the federation...
service - 360 MARCMARC standardsMARC, MAchine-Readable Cataloging, is a data format and set of related standards used by libraries to encode and share information about books and other material they collect...
Updates OPACOPACAn Online Public Access Catalog is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries...
updating service - 360 Resource Manager e-resource management system (ERMERMERM may refer to: In systems and processes:* European Exchange Rate Mechanism* European Reference Materials* Enterprise relationship management* Enterprise risk management* Entity-relationship model...
) - 360 Counter e-resource assessment service
- 360 Core (Access and Management System)
- Ulrichsweb.com
- Ulrich's Serials Analysis System
- untitled Web Scale Management product (currently in development)