mikehas / xerxes

An interface application to library discovery systems

Xerxes

The primary goal of Xerxes is to provide a fully customizable and extendable interface to:

1. Commercial library discovery systems, including Summon, Primo, and Ebsco Discovery
2. No-cost web services, such as the Ebsco Integration Toolkit and the Worldcat API
3. Federated search systems, including Metalib and Pazpar2
4. Open source search engines like Solr

Installation

The recommended way to get a working copy of this project is to clone the repository and use composer to install dependencies:

cd my/project/dir
git clone git://github.com/dswalker/xerxes.git
cd xerxes
php composer.phar install --optimize-autoloader