Soutron

Flexibility is in Our DNA

Soutron’s flexible information management system provides for the creation of information centers, knowledge centers, and library search portals that are tailored to support the unique information needs of an organization.

Soutron’s Integrated Library System (ILS) integrates with your organization’s workflows because we understand how important that is to your day-to-day duties.

We’ve had over 30 years to listen to our clients and refine our software. We can tailor your solution to serve today’s requirements and anticipate tomorrow’s demands. Let us show you a better way to manage your collection with Soutron.

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Scale Your ILS

Our ILS software solution is the ideal choice for Librarian, Information, and Knowledge Management professionals to meet the research and information management needs of their organizations beyond the typical library setting.

Whether you oversee a research association, think tank, or specialized information hub, Soutron’s ILS is simple for everyone to use, allows room for growth, and can be accessed securely from any device at any time.

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Benefits

Soutron is established as the leader in our field because we see our software as we see our clients: striving to be the best.

No Hidden Costs

With Soutron you pay a single annual fee that includes all software maintenance, support and hosting services.

Continual Development

Your needs will change so our team is constantly adding new features and functionalities.

Everything in One Place

Soutron includes Cataloguing, Circulation, Authority Control/Thesaurus, Acquisitions, Serials and much more in one system.

Flexibility & Functionality

Gives you control over how you organize your library system and provides rapid access to your special collection materials.

Security & Accessibility

Set security access permissions to restrict access or demand acknowledgement of copyright.

Search Portal and Information Center Development

By taking advantage of our pre-built search portal templates designed for library portals, information centers and knowledge centers, you can quickly start providing fast, secure access to internal and external materials on any device due to Soutron’s responsive design.

The Soutron ILS supports single or multiple locations, with customized information center portals, seamlessly integrated with SharePoint and Microsoft Active Directory.  Soutron Library Management tasks and workflows appeal to many because of the simplified operations and associated cost savings and efficiencies that can be achieved. 

Customizable ILS Functionality

When we say flexibility is in our DNA, we mean it. Based on your data and workflows, cataloging, asset management, serials, circulations, acquisition functionality are all customized to your organization's workflows. Within the Soutron library ILS there can be any number of fields, record templates in addition to content categories, and relationships between data elements can be easily established to make the management and presentation of both physical and digital data more meaningful, unlike other turnkey library ILS systems. 

Collaboration

Create your own custom end-user inquiry forms and document submission forms complete with metadata capture, enabling you to quickly provide access to collection materials and add knowledge assets to your portal or information center. Soutron Document Review provides for monitored, faster, targeted document reviews and approval for research and editorial content projects, ensuring deadlines are met. 

Metadata Governance Made Easy

Automatically create metadata from external library services e.g. Nielsens, Jisc (COPAC), Library of Congress, or Google Books in addition to creating article summaries based on that metadata with the Soutron Metadata Summarizer. Robust thesaurus authority control provides for the creation of any number of thesauri, each with a full complement of built in metadata relationships. API support enables sharing of metadata with other systems, ensuring metadata governance across systems. 

Discovery Services

Take federated searching to the next level with Soutron Discovery Service, featuring intuitive, single-click searching of internal and external content resources to easily extract the information you are looking for in a single search.  supported in addition to a full API.

Core Functionality

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Our suite of capabilities will satisfy your team’s needs for a special library portal or business information center.

Search Portal & Collaboration

By taking advantage of our pre-built search portal templates designed for library portals, information and knowledge centres, you can quickly start providing fast, secure access to internal and external materials on any device due to Soutron’s responsive design.

The Soutron LMS supports single or multiple locations, with customised information centre portals, seamlessly integrated with SharePoint and Microsoft Active Directory.  

Soutron Library Management tasks and workflows appeal to many because of the simplified operations and associated cost savings and efficiencies that can be achieved. 

Catalogues, Item Management & Circulations

When we say flexibility is in our DNA, we mean it.

Within the Soutron LMS there can be any number of fields, record templates in addition to content categories, and relationships between data elements can be easily established to make the management and presentation of both physical and digital data more meaningful, unlike other turnkey library LMS systems.

Automatically retrieve  metadata from external library services e.g. Nielsens, Jisc (COPAC), Library of Congress, or Google Books.

Take control of your circulations and physical materials with extensive item management features.

Thesaurus / Authority Control

Our Thesaurus module provides a greater user experience for searching, display of information and the ability to share entries across your organisation via its' own API.

Create any number of thesauri, each with a full complement of built in term relationships and multilingual support.

Acquisitions & Subscription Management

Soutron Acquisitions has every facility that you want and need, create, amend, cancel and control receipt and budgeting in every way you need.

Simply cancel and un-receive orders and check-ins, fast screen performance and easy to learn and apply workflows.

Uniquely Soutron employs the same processes to record orders for physical or electronic materials, online subscriptions (virtual copies), books or serials all follow the same process.

API, Reporting, Importing & Exporting

Integrate with third party systems via Soutron’s RESTful XML API, or Search Widget, so users can start their search from your own website.

A comprehensive selection of management reports are available to help you monitor your library and the ability to import / export your collections and records too. XML, MARC21 & CSV Data exchange formats supported.

Core Functionality

Check Out These Capabilities

Our suite of capabilities will satisfy your team’s needs for a special library portal or business information center.

Search Portal and Information Center Development

By taking advantage of our pre-built search portal templates designed for library portals, information centers and knowledge centers, you can quickly start providing fast, secure access to internal and external materials on any device due to Soutron’s responsive design.

The Soutron ILS supports single or multiple locations, with customized information center portals, seamlessly integrated with SharePoint and Microsoft Active Directory.  Soutron Library Management tasks and workflows appeal to many because of the simplified operations and associated cost savings and efficiencies that can be achieved. 

Customizable ILS Functionality

When we say flexibility is in our DNA, we mean it. Based on your data and workflows, cataloging, asset management, serials, circulations, acquisition functionality are all customized to your organization's workflows. Within the Soutron library ILS there can be any number of fields, record templates in addition to content categories, and relationships between data elements can be easily established to make the management and presentation of both physical and digital data more meaningful, unlike other turnkey library ILS systems. 

Collaboration

Create your own custom end-user inquiry forms and document submission forms complete with metadata capture, enabling you to quickly provide access to collection materials and add knowledge assets to your portal or information center. Soutron Document Review provides for monitored, faster, targeted document reviews and approval for research and editorial content projects, ensuring deadlines are met. 

Metadata Governance Made Easy

Automatically create metadata from external library services e.g. Nielsens, Jisc (COPAC), Library of Congress, or Google Books in addition to creating article summaries based on that metadata with the Soutron Metadata Summarizer. Robust thesaurus authority control provides for the creation of any number of thesauri, each with a full complement of built in metadata relationships. API support enables sharing of metadata with other systems, ensuring metadata governance across systems. 

Discovery Services

Take federated searching to the next level with Soutron Discovery Service, featuring intuitive, single-click searching of internal and external content resources to easily extract the information you are looking for in a single search.  supported in addition to a full API.

Core Functionality

Check Out These Capabilities

Our suite of capabilities will satisfy your team’s needs for a special library portal or business information center.

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Screen Shots

You can get some measure of the different approaches taken when deploying our technology by viewing some of our great client portals below.

Our software’s customizable templates are easy to learn how to use, making it straightforward for you to showcase your organizations special collection materials.

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Modernize Your Library or Information Center With Soutron

We want to prove the value we can bring to your organization. Our testimonials are one way to demonstrate that value and build trust, but so are these reasons:

Easy for IT

As a cloud-based solution, we manage your database safely & securely in the cloud, reducing the strain on your IT team.

Go Beyond the Library

Easily integrate Soutron with non-library enterprise applications, providing a greater opportunity to serve teams across the whole organisation.

30+ Years

Our expertise in information management comes from over 30 years of working with all types of organizations and collections.

Next Steps

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