Stacks enhances the user experience by offering a customizable and comprehensive search feature. With the ability to include multiple search integrations and outbound searches, Stacks enables end users to conveniently search, retrieve, and view results directly within or outside of the Stacks user interface.
In this article you will see:
- General instructions on configuring an integration
- List of integrations & requirements
How to Configure an Integrated Search
The following instructions explain to how to configure most integrations, but please note some additional information or fields may require information in certain instances that may not be included here.
- From the Dashboard, click Integrations, then click Search
- Click the <integration> tile you wish to configure
- If not already there, click the Main tab near the top of the screen
- Complete the fields in the window that opens, ensuring the required fields are completed (see the table below)
- Click Save Configuration, at the bottom of the window
Available Integrations & Requirements
The table below provides a listing of Search Integrations available in Stacks along with API and credential requirements.
| Name | Description | Additional Information |
| BSOL | British Standards Online (BSOL) is an online standards database that contains over 55, 000 British Standards records from British Standards Institute (BSI) |
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CiNii |
A database service that contains academic information for journals, books, and dissertations. Focused on Japanese and English works published in Japan, contains more than 15 million articles in over 3,600 publications |
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| Credential Engine | Credential Engine is a non-profit that develops a centralized registry for credentials, certificates, degrees, micro-credentials, etc. Note: Credential Engine does not handle personal information, it is for standardizing and comparing credentials only |
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| Derwent | Derwent Innovation is a proprietary patent research application by Clarivate that provides patent data and tools to discover and monitor competitive landscapes, technology trends, inform FTO opinions, and more |
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| EBMG | Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines (EBMG) is an easy-to-use collection of clinical guidelines for primary and ambulatory care linked to the best available evidence. EBMG is continuously updated and follows the latest developments in clinical medicine bringing evidence into practice |
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This information can be obtained from Duodecim |
| EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) | EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) provides users with an easy to use single search option to access all of an institution's internal (library) and external (database vendors) resources on EBSCOhost servers |
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| EBSCO Integration Toolkit (EIT) | The EBSCO Integration Toolkit (EIT) is a flexible, XML-based web service designed to seamlessly integrate EBSCOhost content into corporate workflow and business applications |
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EuroMonitor |
EuroMonitor International is the world's leading independent provider of strategic market research. EuroMonitor creates data and analysis on thousands of products and services around the world |
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Find My Organization |
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Hoopla |
Hoopla is a free digital media service that offers a wide variety of movies, tv shows, documentaries, music, educational and instructional videos for patrons. Their collection has an unlimited number of copies for titles which means that material is available for streaming or download immediately through this service |
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MedsAPI |
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Mintel |
Mintel delivers data, Market research, trends & insights that impact various business sectors |
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Polaris |
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PublicationIQ |
PublicationIQ provides the ability to search for publications designated as a part of a customer's collection. End-users can search publications by title attributes such as title name, subject, isxn, or publisher |
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PubMed |
PubMed is a free search engine that primarily accesses the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life science and biomedical topics; PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature |
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Questel |
Questel is a provider of intellectual property solutions and technology; offering a variety of products and services to help companies, law firms, and intellectual property professionals manage and protect their intellectual property assets. Stacks can be configured to search one of the following:
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| Sharepoint | SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office. Launched in 2001, SharePoint is often used as a document management and storage system, but the product is highly configurable, and usage varies substantially between organizations |
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Starmind |
Starmind is a third-party artificial intelligence (AI) platform that uses a combination of natural language processing, machine learning, and network analysis to provide personalized, on-demand solutions to complex problems. Starmind is designed to help organizations tap into the collective knowledge and expertise of their employees by creating a knowledge-sharing ecosystem where people can ask questions, get answers, and collaborate with colleagues in real-time |
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Statista |
Statista is a platform that contains over 1 million statistics on over 80,000 topics with 22, 500 sources serving more than 170 different industries |
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Trip Pro |
Trip Pro is an advanced version of the Trip Medical Database, a clinical search engine that allows users to quickly find and access high-quality research evidence including over 100,000 systematic reviews, medical images and videos, millions of links to full-text articles, advanced search and more |
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UpToDate |
The knowledge contained in UpToDate is evidence-based and continuously updated, but it is not merely an aggregation and report of the latest research; UpToDate presents a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence, followed by recommendations that can be acted on at the point of care |
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Z39.50/SRU |
Z39.50 is an international standard client-server, application layer communications protocol used for searching and retrieving information from a database over a TCP/IP computer network. It’s widely used in library environments and incorporated into integrated library systems (ILS) and bibliographic reference software |
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