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CORAL consists of 5 modules, Organizations, Resources, Licensing, Management and Statistics.

Organisations is the smallest and simplest of the modules, and is used to store and manage names, contacts and account information for the many publishers, providers, vendors that libraries interact with on a daily basis all within a single location.
Additional features include a parent/child hierarchy and aliasing for acronyms or organisation name changes – all of which are utilised in search (both here and in the Resources module), for a powerful ability to find exactly the organisation or resource records desired. As with the other CORAL modules, it includes a robust administrative front end to control drop down values – for example Contact Roles or Organisation Roles. We recommend it is the first module installed – once the Organisations data is populated, it will be used in all three of the other modules.

Resources is the most recent addition to the CORAL suite and assists in the management of the entire electronic resource workflow. Like the other modules, Resources is highly customisable through an administrative front end and has robust search features, as well as the new ability to export search results into Microsoft Excel.
Supporting the acquisitions workflow is simplified by easily customisable workflow parameters – and includes abilities to require approvals for step completion, email alerts and a user specific queue for outstanding tasks.

CORAL Licensing provides a way to store and access digital copies of current and expired license agreements and related documents as well as associated agreement metadata. It helps make library license agreements more accessible to personnel through select searchable metadata fields and assists institutions in tracking specific pieces of information included in legal agreements.

CORAL Usage Statistics currently supports JR1 and JR1a COUNTER reports, or any non-counter report edited to a counter-like format. Management of statistics is made available by both publisher and platform.
Each platform or provider can be linked to a specific organisation in the Organisations module which will in turn import all associated account information. This allows Organisations to be a single point of entry for all administrative account data.

CORAL is released as open source software under GPL v. 3 and is available on GitHub.

CORAL has an active user community worldwide that participates in guiding software direction and sponsoring product development.

As an ISO27001 company, PTFS Europe has an excellent reputation for the quality of the support service that is delivered. Our staff are highly skilled and all have many years’ experience in working in the library sector. We are supporting over a hundred organisations, many of which are extremely demanding in the quality of the service that we deliver. We can only provide this service due to the high quality and experience of our staff.

All of our staff are based in the UK and, between them, have hundreds of years of experience working in library automation. CORAL eRM is an easy system to administer and all administration takes place through a web client. Also, as a hosted solution, there is no ongoing responsibility on staff to maintain and configure the infrastructure or application.

The documentation covers installation, user experience, functionality and technical information. For more information on how you can help with the documentation of CORAL, see the Documentation Style Guide.

For the most recent documentation use the following:

Community Documentation Project

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As an ISO27001 company, PTFS Europe has an excellent reputation for the quality of the support service that is delivered. Our staff are highly skilled and all have many years’ experience in working in the library sector. We are supporting over a hundred organisations, many of which are extremely demanding in the quality of the service that we deliver. We can only provide this service due to the high quality and experience of our staff.

All of our staff are based in the UK and, between them, have hundreds of years of experience working in library automation. Knowvation is an easy system to administer and all administration takes place through a web client. Also, as a hosted solution, there is no ongoing responsibility on staff to maintain and configure the infrastructure or application.

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