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UnityUK : At a glance

UnityUK at a glance

Provided by OCLC in partnership with the Combined Regions (TCR) UnityUk is the UK’s first and only national network for resource sharing. UnityUK brings together the union catalogues of TCR, LinkUK (the interlending system serving libraries throughout London and the South East), COPAC (academic and national library catalogue) and the National Library for the Blind, to offer a single unified search service.

Benefits

UnityUK is a fully integrated ILL service for request management and catalogue searching. The request process is fully automated and offers member libraries the following benefits as a result:

  • Accurate, up-to-date information available for every request
  • Reduced turn-around times
  • Streamlined workflow
  • Management of incoming requests via lender functionality

Features

  • A unique service offering a single point of access to the UnityUK, LinkUK, COPAC and National Library for the Blind Union catalogues
  • Real time availability checking through live links to contributors’ OPACs
  • Fully integrated, standards based, request management
  • Complete searching and request management from one interface
  • A choice of data contribution methods