VuFind: Features

Features

Author Biographies: The user can learn more about the author with contextual information and see all of the books that they have written in the library.
Persistent URLs: Allows the user to bookmark their queries or records to allow permanent access to a page they were once on.
Zotero Compatible: Your users can save and tag any records with Zotero or any other COinS based application so they can store their records in one place.
Internationalization: The interface has translations available in Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish with more to come. And If you want to create your own translation - it's easy. You can create a new english translation if you want to change some of the wording used in the interface - it makes the UI that much easier to customize.
Access Your Data: Open Search, OAI, Solr: VuFind has many APIs to interact with the search, data and many other features. You can syndicate your record data with other institutions via an OAI server. You can search using vufind's algorithms via OpenSearch. And if you want complete access to your indexed data, you can interact with Solr, VuFind's backend search and index engine.

Search with Faceted Results: The search system allows for the user to search from a basic search box and then to be able to narrow down the results by clicking on the various facets of the results.
Live Record Status and Location with Ajax Querying: The search results page is able to display the live status of a record through the use of AJAX by querying the catalog at that exact moment. And since it is done through AJAX after the results have loaded, the page will not slow down for any reason.
"More Like This" Resource Suggestions: When viewing a record, the user will be offered suggestions of resources that are similar to the current resource.
Save Resources to Organized Lists: The user has the ability to save the resources from both the search results page and from the record view page to their own customizable lists. The lists can be retrieve at any time and will always be there for the user. This helps to eliminate the need for desktop based citation management software that tends to be too difficult for basic users. This makes it simple for all users!
Browse for Resources: The user has the ability to browse the catalog allowing them to explore what the library has rather than only being able to see a very narrow spectrum of results.

Downloads: Visit the download page for the latest version of VuFind.
History: For a chronology of VuFind releases and features, see the change log.
Getting Started: Our documentation will help you get started with installation and upgrading from previous versions.
Help!: Need help? Have a general question? You'll find answers in several forms on the support page.

VuFind 1.0 Release Candidate 2 now available: December 14, 2009 - The wait is over: the second release candidate of VuFind is now available. Featuring improved security and stability, many new configuration options and the latest versions of Solr and SolrMarc, this is the best VuFind yet. For more details, please visit http://vufind.org/
Going Live!: September 30, 2009 - There have been a recent wave of new VuFind instances going live (or public beta): National Library of Ireland, University of Michigan, Wake Forest, Colorado State, York University, London School of Economics, University of Georgia, and more... Great work everyone!
VuFind wins Mellon Award: December 18, 2008 - On December 8th, Villanova University was amongst 10 other finalist for the 3rd annual Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration award for the development of VuFind. The award was delivered at the annual CNI Taskforce Meeting in Washington DC. Read the press release for more information: http://matc.mellon.org/press-release and here is a photo of the Villanova team with Vint Cerf: http://rit.mellon.org/MATC2008/slides/IMG_2429.html