One search across the print catalog, electronic resources and external databases. For most patrons, this is the library.
Atlas unifies search across the local print catalog (via Thelios), the institution's licensed e-resources, the repository (via Tesara) and federated external indexes. Relevance ranking, faceted filtering, link resolution link resolution, real-time availability from circulation. For most patrons it is the URL they bookmark and the search box they share with a colleague.
The discovery layer is where the institution's entire collection becomes legible to the person looking for an answer. Atlas is designed to make that step invisible: the patron does not learn which database holds what, where the article actually lives, or which login each service expects.
Print, e-books, e-journals and external databases ranked in a single result set — with facets, topic clusters and personalisation for authenticated users.
Live holdings from the integrated library system, link resolution link resolution to the licensed copy, and open-access fallback resolution fallback to the open-access version.
Athena answers patron questions in natural language over the same index — summarising, comparing, citing. The answer arrives with its sources attached.
An Atlas rollout typically delivers a search index, a branded discovery surface and a working link resolver — and the patron stops asking which database to start in.