Tipasa
Tipasa provides new functionality that speeds fulfillment of interlibrary loan requests to save time for your staff and users.
- Configuration
- Administrative settings for Tipasa are maintained in OCLC Service Configuration. In Service Configuration, you can set your interlibrary loan options, print settings, borrower and lender constant data, custom holdings groups, automations, and purchase options. As a Tipasa user, you can also turn on or off additional Tipasa settings.
- Interlibrary Loan Options
- Borrower Data
- Lender Data
- Custom Holdings Groups
- Custom Holdings Paths
- Automated Request Manager
- Article Exchange Retention Settings
- Purchase Options
- Request Forms
- Print Settings
- Advanced Workflows
- Patron Settings
- Address Book
- Notifications
- External System Settings
- Tipasa Non-WMS Circulation Integration
- Tipasa WMS Integration
- Policies Directory guide
- The OCLC Policies Directory is the repository of lending and copying policies of libraries participating in WorldShare Interlibrary Loan and Tipasa.
- Smart fulfillment
- Find information about Smart fulfillment features, which increase the speed of delivery of materials based on policy data, lending history, licensing agreements, format preferences, and more.
- Article Exchange
- Article Exchange provides a single secure location where lending libraries can place requested articles for interlibrary loan. It allows users to upload files for pickup anywhere in the world. Only authorized users will be able to download the file.
- Batch processing
- Use batch processing to receive, return, and complete requests for multiple items.
- Constant data
- Learn how to edit constant data and find information about constant data for borrowers and lenders in Tipasa.
- Copyright
- Find information about managing copyright.
- Discover Items
- When you click Discover Items on the left navigation, an Advanced Search form will open on the screen. Completing a basic search will pre-populate the Advanced Search form with the terms from the original search. You can also conduct a search using only the Advanced Search form.
- Document Delivery
- The Document Delivery features allow your library to fulfill requests from patrons with items from your own collection.
- Export
- With Tipasa, you have access to the Export feature. All queues (except the Print queues and Linked Requests queues) and search results have the Export All button, which allows you to export all items in the queue or search results tab. When you export a queue or search results, you will be given a comma separated value (CSV) file. You can use this file for printing (merge request data with custom Microsoft Word, or other, print templates).
- Interlibrary Loan Fee Management
- The Interlibrary Loan Fee Management (IFM) feature lets libraries reconcile resource-sharing charges and payments through their monthly OCLC invoice. IFM helps libraries save money on fee-based transactions and simplify the transaction process.
- My Account
- My Account is the interface for users at libraries with Tipasa, WorldShare Circulation, or WorldCat Discovery. Features available to the user vary depending on the service(s) to which your library subscribes.
- Off-System Requesting
- Learn how to track all requests using off-system request workflows in Tipasa.
- Patron management
- With Tipasa, you can access your library's patron accounts for viewing, editing, and approving.
- With Tipasa, you can print individual requests, all requests in a queue, add requests to the print queue to print out later, and queue book straps and shipping and return labels to be printed.
- Purchasing Requests
- The Purchase option allows you to track items you may wish to purchase, instead of borrowing via interlibrary loan.
- RapidILL
- RapidILL (OCLC symbol RAPID) is a service that allows Tipasa libraries with a subscription to RapidILL to submit and respond to copy requests through RapidILL from within the Tipasa interface.
- Circulation integration
- Circulation integration provides you with a method to streamline the interlibrary loan-circulation process and workflow.
- WorldShare Acquisitions integration
- Tipasa and WorldShare Acquisitions integration provides you with a method of submitting purchase requests directly to WorldShare Acquisitions from within the Tipasa interface.
- Tags
- Tags are custom labels that can be applied to active and closed requests. Your library can use tags as a way to group and keep track of requests. Tags are only visible to your library. The system maintains all tags created and saved to a request, and you can search for active and closed requests using tags. You can create up to 200 unique tags.
- Document suppliers
- The documentation in this section explains how to receive articles from document suppliers such as Get It Now and MyBib.
- Reports
- Reports are available to Tipasa users through OCLC Usage Statistics, WorldShare Reports, and Report Designer.
- Tipasa release notes and known issues
- Find Tipasa release notes and known issues. Release notes are documents that contain information about new product features and enhancements as installed in scheduled releases.
- Troubleshooting
- Find frequently asked questions (FAQ) and troubleshooting steps (Troubleshooting).
- Are autodeflections included in the Lender Activity Overview Report?
- Are inline links possible within Tipasa notifications?
- Are weekends included in days to respond or the aging of a request?
- Call numbers are not populating on incoming lending requests, even though we have enabled this integration
- Can I request part of a book through Article Galaxy from Reprints Desk?
- Can I send and receive documents to and from ILLiad libraries?
- Can the search box and search links be disabled in MyAccount?
- Can we disable the patron's alternative email field in My Account?
- Can we mark a request as 'Urgent'?
- Does a patron need an ILL account in order to submit an ILL request?
- Do you have a list of recommended models of Barcode Readers and printers for Tipasa and WMS?
- Error filling request NCIP CheckoutItem call failed error in ReShare
- Error Message "Get it Now Request is using an invalid IFM payment token"
- Why are we getting an error and a string of text when processing a request in Tipasa or WorldShare ILL?
- Featured Tipasa Troubleshooting articles
- How are the status and department fields used in Tipasa patron information?
- Why am I receiving a "Failed to send email. A system error has occurred" error when sending Article Exchange emails?
- How can we view all lending requests, including deflections?
- How does IFM handle various currencies in different requests?
- How does Tipasa and WorldShare ILL handle duplicate requests?
- How do I apply a Custom Holdings Path to a request?
- How do I create a link directly to the patron request workform?
- How do I grant someone access to approve patrons?
- How do I make a renewal request in Tipasa?
- How do I release stuck or hung requests?
- How do I shut down borrowing in Tipasa?
- How do I submit a copyright payment report using Tipasa?
- How do I transfer a patron's ILL requests to the patron's new library card number?
- How do we setup OPAC availability in Tipasa?
- How long does it take for delivery confirmation to show in the Notification Log of a request?
- If users don't have notifications turned on will they still get Article Exchange links in My Account?
- If we switch to provision on demand, how will that affect current users in our ILL system?
- I’m trying to purchase this article through Get it Now, but I received an error message "An error occurred processing the request"
- Is it possible to apply more than one Custom Holdings Path to a request?
- Is there any way to have user status information auto populate based on the patron's information?
- Is there a way to delete or cancel requests that sit in the Not Received or AE Alert queue?
- I am seeing the error message: "Shipped date is out of bounds"
- I am unable to upload a file to Article Exchange. Is there a file size limit?
- I cannot remove the Need Before Date from Borrower Constant Data.
- I can't see the Create Request button in the User Portal.
- There are requests in the New for Review queue but I am unable to display them.
- I do not want to lend to a specific group of libraries, how do I configure my deflection policy?
- I need a list of all current patron accounts within Tipasa
- I receive a system error page when clicking my Tipasa OpenURL in my OPAC, but the form opens correctly when I refresh
- I want to make sure that users will receive notifications. How can I whitelist the notification servers?
- My tags have disappeared from my Tipasa Homepage
- On our "Loan available for pickup" notification, the pick up location is not filling in.
- Our patrons are submitting Loan Requests without an OCN, why is this happening?
- Patron ID field not in the request form
- The default pickup location is not displayed correctly in the patron request workform
- Users are not receiving Article Exchange emails
- What are Linked Requests?
- What changes do I need to make for the auto-no feature to deflect requests based on my library's availability?
- What guidelines does the copyright module follow for copy right management?
- What vendors are available in the Purchase Options section within an ILL request?
- When I open our Tipasa request form, I get the error, "Information is not available at this time. Try again later."
- When we try to open the Tipasa ILL request form a different ILL template displays instead.
- Where can I change the Reply To Email in Notifications?
- Why am I getting this error message when checking in an ILL request "Temporary item record failed to create (exception) unrecognized user"?
- Why am I seeing an error message when I attempt to delete a custom holdings group?
- Why am I seeing a workform cannot be loaded error when I attempt to load my patron request workform?
- Why aren't notifications being sent to the borrowing library?
- Why are my e-periodical requests coming back unfilled
- Why are my off campus patrons receiving an error message that says "Null Relay: HTTP session was not found" when they try to access My Account?
- Why are overdue notices going out even after I send a renewal request in Tipasa?
- Why are patrons able to make ILL requests and renew items when they are expired
- Why are patrons not receiving automated email notifications about their ILL requests?
- Why are requests deflected with the reason MFHD Acquisitions Status - On Order?
- Why are we getting a "Missing or invalid Status" error in the Tipasa User Portal?
- Why can't I mark an article exchange request received?
- Why can I not get a due date to appear when I fill Lending requests for a Copy?
- Why did I get the error message "Direct request processing failed"?
- Why doesn't my custom notification autopopulate the patron's email address?
- Why do some article requests match onto an article while others match onto the journal the article is published in?
- Why do I see the message "Search results did not contain a valid ISSN" in the Request History?
- Why do the Patron Request forms not automatically update with the patron's information?
- Why is my new custom notification template not appearing as an option in Tipasa?
- Why is there a request in the AE Alert queue with no Article Exchange link?
- Why is the error incomplete contact information for patron appearing when I try to send an email?
- Why is the LinkUserPortal data insert not pulling in the correct URL for our Tipasa My Account page?
- Why is the Patron ID field not in populating in the Tipasa request form?
- Why is the return address incorrect on our library's shipping labels?
- Will an approved Tipasa renewal automatically update in WorldShare Circulation?
- Will an Automated Request go through if there is no metadata on the request?
- Will an Automated Request go through if there is no patron ID located?
- Will users who have set up their notification settings in My Account get emails about pre-Tipasa transactions?
- OCLC Community Center: Tipasa community
- Find more information about the Community Center. Current Tipasa product users may join the OCLC Community Center to connect with peers and OCLC staff on product workflows, attend webinars, and provide feedback on the product.