Managing e-resources doesn’t have to be complex. In this session, discover how CloudSource delivers a fully managed solution that simplifies setup, upgrades, and ongoing maintenance—freeing staff to focus on strategic priorities. Through real-world examples, you’ll see how libraries are leveraging CloudSource to streamline e-resource workflows, reduce technical overhead, and enhance service delivery.

We’ll showcase live implementations, walk through the effortless upgrade process, and highlight the operational benefits of a discovery solution that minimizes behind-the-scenes effort. Whether you’re aiming to optimize staff resources, reduce complexity, or learn how peer institutions are putting CloudSource into action, this session offers a clear and practical overview of the advantages for your team.

CloudSource is redefining both the discovery experience and the way library staff manage digital collections. In this session, explore the CloudSource Collection Manager, which enables precise, granular curation of your indexed content. Learn how Usage Reports provide clear, intuitive access to COUNTER-compliant data for both open access and licensed resources. Finally, discover how CloudSource+ Holdings Management delivers the industry’s only fully-managed, end-to-end solution for maintaining your eResource subscriptions—streamlining workflows and reducing administrative burden.

Open Access is reshaping how libraries connect their communities to scholarly content—unlocking new opportunities for equitable access while introducing challenges in managing vast, decentralized resources. In this session, discover how CloudSource OA, an Open Access–focused discovery platform from SirsiDynix, empowers libraries to navigate this evolving landscape.

With 70 million articles, eBooks, eTextbooks, and open educational resources aggregated into a single intuitive search experience, CloudSource OA simplifies access while reducing subscription costs and eliminating paywalls. Attendees will learn how libraries are leveraging CloudSource OA to deliver trustworthy, high-quality content—no authentication required—enhancing discovery and expanding reach across campus and beyond.

CloudSource+ represents a transformative approach to the management, discovery, and delivery of digital resources. Unlike traditional models, SirsiDynix is not dependent on content subscription revenue, allowing the company to prioritize software innovation and user experience. The result is a discovery interface designed to connect users with full-text content in the most intuitive and efficient way possible.

Join this session to explore how CloudSource+ can help your library reduce costs, expand access to high-quality resources, and enhance user satisfaction through a modern, streamlined discovery experience.

Stay informed on the future of BLUEcloud Discovery! Join us for a look at the vision driving Discovery, key goals on the path to general availability, and a preview of the release timeline.

Current, up next and future. Let’s discuss the SirsiDynix journal of roadmaps and make it as public as your local newspaper.

In late summer 2024, Hampden-Sydney College made the decision not to renew their long-standing contract with EBSCO for their discovery layer and take the leap in adopting CloudSource+, the new, OA-forward discovery platform from SirsiDynix. This journey involved evaluation of their current services, subscriptions, needs of their users, and how much of scholarly content was actually OA. Join us as we explore the reasons behind the migration and learn about HSC’s implementation experience from both the customer and SirsiDynix perspective.

CloudSource is the new content platform that is part of the BLUEcloud ecosystem. It aggregates articles, eTextBooks, and Open Educational Resources (OER), enriches the metadata, provides comprehensive discovery through Enterprise, and offers staff tools for curating collections and gathering usage statistics.

CloudSource has grown beyond just OA articles to now include subscription databases. And the index is no longer just scholarly content—it now includes popular magazines, new sources, trade journals, archives, and more. Discovery now includes a publication finder and advanced searching, along with many other significant enhancements.

The CloudSource team has been very busy—attend this session to find out what we’ve been up to.

This session overviews new cutting-edge library infrastructure technology paradigms and methodologies implemented by Mississippi State University Libraries when presented with significant budgetary challenges.  New open access solutions enabled by Cloudsource+ with innovative focused resource access methodologies by Article Galaxy Scholar open new possibilities for reconfiguring collections and budgets for better alignment of academic library materials with faculty research and teaching needs.  Data-driven quantitative and qualitative evaluation techniques with Overlap analysis can also better assess e-resource subscription models for better data-informed decision making. Taken together, these methods and tools can change the game for opening budgets to better align with enabling focused faculty research and teaching needs.  This session will overview how data-driven analytics with new open access software possibilities can be utilized to create better budget model decisions. As the financial burden associated with e-resources escalates, academic libraries face mounting challenges of effectively navigating highly inflationary contracts and subscriptions to achieve cost savings while providing the academic community with focused scholarly resources for research and teaching. By utilizing new paradigm software possibilities with data driven analytics and open access models, libraries can better identify opportunities for large cost savings. These can then be deployed to strategically provide new requested resources empowering researchers, teachers and academic and research libraries to effectively navigate challenges and open resource possibilities for the new millennium.

CloudSource+, currently in live pilot, expands CloudSource OA to include both OA and non-OA resources—all from Enterprise, saving you the expense and overhead of an additional discovery layer. Rather than using OA as a fallback if no paid resource is available, CloudSource+ will always present one-click access to OA full text if available–linking to a licensed version if OA is not available. The integrated on-demand options deliver access to commercial resources without a subscription.