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• Resource Sharing
• Mar 07
• Issue: 210

Send and Receive Electronic Documents With Odyssey Software

Odyssey is a protocol used by ILLiad and Odyssey Client systems to send documents electronically between institutions. The Odyssey Client (stand alone) is a free software application for electronic document delivery from Atlas Systems. The software is available for download from http://www.atlas-sys.com/products/odyssey/. The Odyssey Client stand-alone application enables libraries using ILLiad or the Odyssey Client to send and receive documents.

Odyssey Features

• Send and receive electronic documents.
• Review, insert, delete, rotate, crop and de-skew images either sending or receiving.
• Automatically add coversheets to incoming or outgoing documents. Rescan any incorrectly scanned pages.
• Send black, grayscale, color, or a combination of formats in the same document.
• Send free text messages between Odyssey clients and reference documents for re-scanning requests.
• Manage addresses for other libraries in the address book. Uses standard Twain drivers.
• Utilizes a single port for ease of firewall modification and allows for IP blocking of incoming items.
• Automatic conversion of incoming files to PDF.
• Automatic posting of files to a specific file or folder.
• Automatic printing of incoming files.
• Easy importing of Odyssey settings and address book into OCLC ILLiad when upgrading.
• Send and receive documents between other Odyssey users or OCLC ILLiad sites.

Odyssey Support

Atlas and OCLC support Odyssey only for OCLC ILLiad licensees. Support for the Odyssey Client resides within the user community. Libraries that choose to use the Odyssey Client software are encouraged to subscribe to the Odyssey-L list to receive technical support for installation of this software. To subscribe to the Odyssey-L:

• Send an email to: Odyssey-L-join@iris.atlas-sys.com
• Leave the subject and the body blank.

The listserv will send you a message asking that you confirm your subscription request.

Or you can subscribe via the following web site: http://iris.atlas-sys.com/mailman/listinfo/odyssey-l

Once you confirm your request, you will receive a welcome message containing general information about the list.

Support is also available through the Atlas Community Portal at http://www.atlas-sys.com/community/index.php.

Resource Sharing Contact Information

Please contact Jon Penn, Resource Sharing Librarian at Nylink, with questions. Jon is available via email (pennj@nylink.org) or phone (800-342-3353/518-443-5444).