**Apologies for cross posting**

SUNCAT - Serials Union CATalogue for the UK research community

We are happy to report that great progress has been made with the development of the new SUNCAT interface, which we previewed back in April, and that it is now available at http://service.suncat.ac.uk

The new interface has been developed on an open-source search platform, Solr, which has provided us with the flexibility to provide new and enhanced functionality, including:

  - Improved pre-search library and geographic limits: enabling you to focus your search to see only holdings from a particular group of libraries or from a particular geographic location.
  - The ability to combine library, location, format, language and year of publication pre-search limits to create very specific focused searches.
  - The introduction of post-search filters: enabling you to narrow your search results by holding library, format, subject, author, date of first publication, place of publication and language.
  - More integrated information about our Contributing Libraries: from the holdings display you can link to the library website, contact details, Google directions, the British Library code (for inter-library loans) and the date when the library's data was last updated in SUNCAT.
  - Links to the local catalogues of holding libraries: also available on the holdings display, enabling you to check information directly at the source.
  - A new look for the interface incorporating a map showing all the various locations of our Contributing Libraries.

More information about the development can be found on our blog at http://suncat.blogs.edina.ac.uk/category/development/

The new interface will run in parallel with the existing Aleph interface for a period of about six months to allow everyone time to become familiar with the new look and functionality. As well as the direct link above you will see a link from the existing interface. We hope that everyone will find it easy and straightforward to use, but naturally we have provided online help, and we will also make available some 'Quick Start' guides and other print and online documentation.

We would encourage you to start using the new interface as soon as possible and we would be keen to receive any comments or questions via the EDINA helpdesk,[log in to unmask]

Best wishes,

Fred
EDINA SUNCAT

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