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Getting Started

  • Introduction
  • Authentication
    • API Keys
  • Making Your First Request

Concepts

  • Request Formats
  • Managing Sessions
  • Obtaining Option Information
  • Paging through Results
  • Configuring Default API Settings in EBSCOadmin

Basic Usage

  • Performing a Search
    • Searching with Limiters
    • Searching with Expanders
    • Using Min and Max Date Range to Filter Results
    • Retrieving an Exact Match Publication
  • Working with Full Text
  • Exporting a Formatted Record
  • Retrieving Record Citations

Extended Topics

  • Using Autosuggested Terms
  • Using Autocorrected Terms
  • Incorporating Autocomplete
    • Autocomplete
  • Research Starters
    • Searching with Research Starters
  • Publication Type Icons
  • Image Quick View
  • Publication Finder
    • Searching for Publications
    • Obtaining Search Options
    • Retrieving a Publication by ID
  • Bot Detection and Blocking
  • Rate Limits and Throttling

Developer Resources

  • Designing Your Search Screen
  • Improving Application Speed
  • Using HTTP Compression
  • Response and Error Codes
  • Sample Applications
    • Python
    • PHP
    • Java
    • VuFind
    • Blacklight
    • Koha
    • Drupal
    • Learning Management Systems
    • Mobile
  • FAQs

Blacklight

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Blacklight is an open source, Ruby on Rails Engine that provides a basic discovery interface for searching an Apache Solr index. It provides a search box, facet constraints, stable document urls and more. All items are customizable via Rails templating mechanisms. Blacklight accommodates heterogeneous data, allowing different information displays for different types of objects.

Source code and Instructions (EBSCO GitHub Repository)

Updated about 1 year ago


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