Features


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Author Biographies
The user can learn more about the author with contextual information and see all of the books that they have written in the library.
Persistent URLs
Allows the user to bookmark their queries or records to allow permanent access to a page they were once on.
Zotero Compatible
Your users can save and tag any records with Zotero or any other COinS based application so they can store their records in one place.
Internationalization
The interface has translations available in Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish with more to come. And If you want to create your own translation - it's easy. You can create a new english translation if you want to change some of the wording used in the interface - it makes the UI that much easier to customize.
Access Your Data: Open Search, OAI, Solr
VuFind has many APIs to interact with the search, data and many other features. You can syndicate your record data with other institutions via an OAI server. You can search using vufind's algorithms via OpenSearch. And if you want complete access to your indexed data, you can interact with Solr, VuFind's backend search and index engine.
Search with Faceted Results
The search system allows for the user to search from a basic search box and then to be able to narrow down the results by clicking on the various facets of the results.
Live Record Status and Location with Ajax Querying
The search results page is able to display the live status of a record through the use of AJAX by querying the catalog at that exact moment. And since it is done through AJAX after the results have loaded, the page will not slow down for any reason.
"More Like This" Resource Suggestions
When viewing a record, the user will be offered suggestions of resources that are similar to the current resource.
Save Resources to Organized Lists
The user has the ability to save the resources from both the search results page and from the record view page to their own customizable lists. The lists can be retrieve at any time and will always be there for the user. This helps to eliminate the need for desktop based citation management software that tends to be too difficult for basic users. This makes it simple for all users!
Browse for Resources
The user has the ability to browse the catalog allowing them to explore what the library has rather than only being able to see a very narrow spectrum of results.

Releases

VuFind 1.0RC1 released (Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:48:12 GMT)

Released at Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:48:12 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: vufind-1.0RC1.tgz (30661976 bytes, 1309 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.8.2 released (Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:02:54 GMT)

Released at Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:02:54 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: vufind-0.8.2.zip (10651579 bytes, 232 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.2.tar.gz (10497863 bytes, 1973 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.2.tar.bz2 (10508797 bytes, 187 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.8.1 released (Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:02:57 GMT)

Released at Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:02:57 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: vufind-0.8.1.tar.bz2 (10507845 bytes, 160 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.1.tar.gz (10496445 bytes, 159 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.1.zip (10649831 bytes, 66 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.8 released (Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:26:32 GMT)

Released at Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:26:32 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: vufind-0.8.tar.gz (10559530 bytes, 968 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.7 released (Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:32:43 GMT)

Released at Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:32:43 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VuFind-0.7.tar.gz (15969438 bytes, 1420 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.6.1 released (Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:59:31 GMT)

Released at Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:59:31 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VuFind-0.6.1.tar.gz (7951149 bytes, 801 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.6 released (Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:03:55 GMT)

Released at Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:03:55 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VuFind-0.6.tar.gz (7952238 bytes, 826 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.5 released (Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:56:51 GMT)

Released at Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:56:51 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VUFind-0.5.tgz (7736414 bytes, 1107 downloads to date)
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Downloads
The first public release is available in beta status. Visit the download page.
Falvey Memorial Library


VuFind is developed and maintained by Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library.

News

VuFind wins Mellon Award
December 18, 2008 - On December 8th, Villanova University was amongst 10 other finalist for the 3rd annual Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration award for the development of VuFind. The award was delivered at the annual CNI Taskforce Meeting in Washington DC. Read the press release for more information: http://matc.mellon.org/press-release and here is a photo of the Villanova team with Vint Cerf: http://rit.mellon.org/MATC2008/slides/IMG_2429.html (0 comments)
VuFind 1.0 Release Candidate 1 now available
October 16, 2008 - The first release candidate of the VuFind 1.0 release is now available. This is only a release candidate in preparation of the official 1.0 release. Please take note of the new issue tracking software powered by JIRA http://vufind.org/jira (0 comments)
Villanova University Library goes Live!
August 20, 2008 - Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova Univesity launched their implementation of VuFind.
You can have a look at: http://library.villanova.edu/Find (0 comments)
Podcast Interview with Andrew and Chris
June 24, 2008 - PALINET interviews Andrew and Chris on the development of VuFind. Listen to the podcast at:
http://blog.palinet.org/podcast/?p=47 (0 comments)
National Library of Australia goes Live!
May 27, 2008 - The NLA has gone into production with VuFind and replaced their existing OPAC. Congrats to the NLA Team! Visit their site: http://catalogue.nla.gov.au (0 comments)
Version 0.8 is now available
March 18, 2008 - We are proud to announce the release of VuFind 0.8.
This release is a much anticipated release due to the refactoring of the index structure. We have a new import tool that will import MARC records much faster. See the documentation for details. (0 comments)
Version 0.7 is now available
December 12, 2007 - We are proud to announce the release of VuFind 0.7. This release is chock full of enhancements and new features. There are no major backend changes so an upgrade should be very easy. (0 comments)
ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia
December 11, 2007 - Come see VuFind in action in our home town of Philadelphia at the ALA Midwinter Conference in January. We will be sharing booth #318 with PALINET during the Exhibition. We will also be hosting a session on Saturday, January 12th at 10:30am. We hope you will come and see us! (0 comments)
2 presentations, 2 conferences, 2 days
October 24, 2007 - Chris and Andrew of the VuFind development team will be presenting at 2 conferences in October. The first presentation will be at the Palinet 2007 Conference in Baltimore on October 29. The second presentation will be at the ExLibris User Group Meeting on October 30 at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ just outside of Trenton. We hope to see you there! (0 comments)
VuFind Profiled in Smart Libraries Newsletter
September 06, 2007 - Marshall Breeding reports on VuFind in the September 2007 issue of ALA TechSource's Smart Libraries Newsletter. It's great to see Open Source initiatives - especially VuFind - profiled on the front page! (0 comments)