Horizon Information Portal: Extending Access

As the most powerful and content-rich information retrieval tool available for the web today, Horizon Information Portal helps meet your library's mission to provide students with access to as much information as possible, as easily as possible, and as conveniently as possible.

Enabling students to simultaneously search a wide variety of resources from a single, intuitive interface, Horizon Information Portal serves as an information portal to your catalog, Web sites, databases, and any other information sources that you own or to which you subscribe. And because it is web-based, Horizon Information Portal enables students to quickly and easily search these sources from virtually anywhere.

Dynix add-on products for Horizon Information Portal provide students with easy access to even more information—information that makes research efforts more efficient. For example, with Horizon Enriched Content add-on, students see not only cover art, but also links to tables of content, chapter excerpts, book reviews, summaries, and any other descriptive data to which you subscribe.

Horizon Consolidated Searching offers students the power and ease of searching all at once your catalog and the databases—including web-based databases—that you make available. Supporting more than 1170 databases, Horizon Consolidated Searching returns a single summary of students' search results. In other words, one search yields one display of results from all available resources. Horizon Consolidated Searching thus enables students to conduct easy, comprehensive searches—without the need for your staff's time and assistance.

For students interested in the online content services to which you subscribe, Horizon Remote Patron Authentication enables authenticated access. Horizon Remote Patron Authentication checks your ILS student file, verifying that each student meets your library's defined criteria. Based on information in students' records, Horizon Remote Patron Authentication permits students to access any online resources to which they have rights. Authenticated students then choose from a list of authorized resources, passing approved credentials to the online database provider simply by clicking on the desired resource.

Additionally, Dynix add-on products for Horizon Information Portal unquestionably enhance students' experience with your catalog.