Relais web services are available for a number of Relais features and functions.
OCLC Relais provides a sandbox for testing.
To arrange for testing and access to the sandbox contact your local Relais administrator or OCLC Support.
A series of web services are provided that once implemented allow a library to use an alternate discovery platform to access the functionality provided through Relais Discovery.
DiscoverItem is a suite of web services
Note: The DiscoverItem services are well suited for use in other Discovery platforms to return results to the user in real time. When combined with Requestability these can be used to display to the user an appropriate fulfillment option for titles retrieved.
This service is used for testing and troubleshooting only. It returns the search results along with the requestability of an item.
Contact OCLC Support to arrange for testing of the Discovery web services, access to the sandbox and for a PartnershipId.
Additional web services for use with Relais services.
This service is used to assign a unique authorization id ('aid').
This service is used to validate that an authorization id (aid) is still valid and optionally, to extend the session while making additional calls against other services.
This service is used to retrieve request information from Relais. Once retrieved the transactions can be integrated into the library account services portals, e.g., for your patrons.
This service is used to add requests to the Relais database.