Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues (COPAC)
Copac was funded by Jisc, to deliver a service to the UK community on the basis of an agreement with Research Libraries UK (RLUK)
Type of site
Union catalogue Bibliographic database
Available in
English
Owner
Jisc
Research Libraries UK
URL
copac.jisc.ac.uk
Current status
Superseded by Library Hub Discover
Copac (originally an acronym of Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues) was a union catalogue which provided free access to the merged online catalogues of many major research libraries and specialist libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales.[1] It had over 40 million records[2] from around 90 libraries as of 2019,[3] representing a wide range of materials across all subject areas. Copac was freely available to all,[2] and was widely used, with users mainly coming from Higher Education institutions in the United Kingdom, but also worldwide.[4] Copac was valued by users as a research tool.[4]
Copac was searchable through with a web browser or Z39.50 client. It was also accessible through OpenURL and Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU) interfaces.[5] These interfaces could be used to provide links to items on Copac from external sites, such as those used on the Institute of Historical Research website.[6]
Copac was a Jisc service provided for the UK community on the basis of an agreement with Research Libraries UK (RLUK).[7] The service used records supplied by RLUK members, as well as an increasing range of specialist libraries with collections of national research interest. A full list of contributors is available[8] including the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Middle Temple library and Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Library.[2][9]
In July 2019, Jisc replaced COPAC with Library Hub Discover.[10][3][11]
^Cousins, Shirley (1997). "COPAC: The New Nationally Accessible Union Catalogue". Ariadne (8). Archived from the original on May 5, 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
^ ab"Use Jisc Library Hub Discover to search all UK University and National Libraries at once". University of Aberdeen. July 28, 2019. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
^ abAnon (2014). "Copac User Survey" (PDF). blog.copac.ac.uk.
^(Jisc), Copac service. "Copac for Developers". copac.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-06-08. Retrieved 2015-02-03.
^"Saints in Exile – History On-line". www.history.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
^"Jisc Library Hub Discover". discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
^Grindley, Neil (June 16, 2019). "Nearly time to say...'"goodbye Copac and SUNCAT!"". Jisc Library services. Archived from the original on December 7, 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
Copac (originally an acronym of Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues) was a union catalogue which provided free access to the merged online catalogues...
operated by Jisc. It replaces Copac and SUNCAT. Its user interface is centred around a simple search engine-like query box. "Copac". Jisc. Retrieved 2020-08-17...
of technical experts advising the Constitution Parliamentary Committee (COPAC) which had been set up by the Parliament of Zimbabwe with the mandate of...
Moscow, 1962, pp. 209–210. Translations from Longworth on as cited in COPAC catalogue. Bagby, Lewis, ed. (2002). Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time": A...
November 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2016. "SOAS Library, University of London". COPAC. Archived from the original on 3 May 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2016. "Brief...
quadrants. | Copac". copac.jisc.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018. Ackermann, Silke. "Time | Copac". copac.jisc.ac...
2018 The Kingdom Herald. Archived 18 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine Copac. Retrieved 14 November 2015. "MPs links to Christian Nationalism Revealed"...
Matthew Arnold (Teddington: Echo Library, 2006) p. 20. Catalogue entry at Copac. Letter to Arthur Hugh Clough, November 1853, cited from Carl Dawson (ed...
institutions via interlibrary loan. Examples of this type of catalogs include COPAC, SUNCAT, NLA Trove, and WorldCat—the latter catalogs the collections of...
same name for their file format as they do for their database (including Copac, CSA, ISI, Medline, Ovid, PubMed, and SciFinder). For the ability to retrieve...
WorldShare Record Manager or WorldCat Metadata API for similar purposes. Copac Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) List of academic databases...
its True Light; or, the Weight of Tribulation lessened (1775)"COPAC Brief Records". COPAC. Retrieved 8 December 2011. This article incorporates text from...
in Crisis", Swisster.ch, 17 October 2008 McCrae, Fran (2015-01-16). "COPAC". Copac.coop. Archived from the original on 2016-12-26. Retrieved 2016-12-21...
regresat în carieră după ce a fost victima rasismului: "Jos cu maimuţa din copac!"". gsp.ro (in Romanian). Gazeta Sporturilor. Retrieved 9 October 2012....
which she also composed. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clara Torr. COPAC – lists Clara Torr's Music Hall Songs that are available at the Oxford,...
Chess and Checkers Collection and the Copac UK Academic & National Library Catalog. Cleveland Public Library Copac UK Academic & National Library Catalog...
10 John 10:7 η θυρα (door) – majority ο ποιμην (shepherd) – 𝔓75 copsa copac 0 Textual variants in John 11 John 11:1 1 Textual variants in John 12 John...
David John (1996). British Tanks, 1915–18: Manufacture and Employment. copac.jisc.ac.uk (PhD). Glasgow: University of Glasgow. OCLC 557405280. EThOS uk...
church of the Roman Empire. (Sources of information include [http://copac.ac.uk COPAC) Christ's Crown and Covenant: or national covenanting essentially...
July 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2011. "Royal Academy of Music Library". Copac Academic & National Library Catalogue. Archived from the original on 21...
(1967). Physical Processes in Radio Sources and the Intergalactic Medium. copac.jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. Archived from the original...
Other examples include K10plus in Germany, Library Hub Discover (formerly COPAC) provided by Research Libraries UK and AMICUS, provided by Library and Archives...
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