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ZORA comes with two different searches: a “Simple Search”, which is integrated on all pages and searches across all metadata and full texts, and an “Advanced Search”, which can be used to filter out individual metadata as search criteria. Both lead to a list of results with citation details, Open Access status and, if applicable, PDF previews.

ElasticSearch offers a high-performance and fail-safe infrastructure as well as a range of additional functionalities that can be expected from a modern search engine:

• Faceting
  Filters on selected criteria such as publication year, author, publication type, Open Access status, journal, affiliation and many more
• Autosuggest/complete
  List of suggestions in real time during input
• Search operators, phrase search, placeholders – see https://www.zora.uzh.ch/help/
• Snippets on abstract and full text
  Context-dependent result text excerpts
• Highlighting
• Field aliases
  Individual fields can be searched directly with field abbreviations
• Export functionality
  Search results can be exported in different formats
• Responsive web design for small displays
• Detailed help

All of the more than 150,000 publications available in ZORA are already in the search index and will also be immediately available in the search during the new entry. Since the beta test in January, all functions are now available in the user interface. In particular, the export functions, as well as the numerous field aliases that allow the search to be narrowed down to specific fields, have been implemented.

In the repository universe, our development is already meeting with a positive response. We have had requests for implementation from the UK JISC and Univ. Strathclyde, Glasgow. At the Open Repositories 2021 conference in June, our project will be presented as part of the community activities.