— Objective 1: EFSA needs to access to a wide range of scientific literature for research purposes to support its core activity: scientific evidence-based risk assessment;

— Objective 2: EFSA needs to have an integrated solution that facilitates EFSA staff to access scientific literature, EFSA subscriptions and other tools; and allows EFSA library staff to analyse the use of library subscriptions.

Provision of a wide range of published papers, mainly related to scientific fields such as, agriculture, chemistry, nature and environment, medicine, plant health and veterinary, but also in legal, IT and management issues.

— Solution for a customizable web platform to display library specific information to EFSA Library users. The solution should provide a unified access to the library services and tools such as A-Z list, resource discovery service, document supply services, etc.

— Resource discovery service (RDS) that allows searching and displaying results from different sources (library catalogue alongside a central index of electronic of print journals and e-books at article level and at chapter level);

— Open URL link resolution functionality (link resolver) that must use the data provided by EFSA related to subscriptions to build the appropriate links to the correct resources by the end users. A to Z list functionality to display the library resources (mainly e-journals, e-books and databases);

— SUSHI harvester to collect COUNTER usage reports generated by several vendors.