Archive for January 2008
Libris union catalogue
Libris is a national union catalogue which contains information on what material can be found in Swedish research and special libraries. Here you will find references for printed books, e-books, journals, e-journals, articles, maps, sheet music and more.
LIBRIS is a national search service providing information on titles held by Swedish university and research libraries, as well as about thirty public libraries. At present the LIBRIS database contains almost 6 million titles.
LIBRIS is the joint catalogue of the Swedish academic and research libraries and is updated on a daily basis. The libraries providing cataloguing input all contribute jointly to building up the database contents.
In any hit list you may obtain, you can see the title, author, year of publication, etc., and often you are provided with additional information such as tables of contents, summaries, illustrations and links to full-text documents.
You can see which libraries hold the title which you are interested in, and whether the title is available for loan or as a full-text document on the Internet. You cannot buy books, periodicals etc. through LIBRIS, but rather through a bookshop.
The LIBRIS Department of the National Library of Sweden is responsible for the operation and development of this online search service.
Search LIBRIS
- Enter your search terms in the search form.
- Refine your result set if your search returns to many results.
- Check if the book is available at your library or if it is available in full text.
Some highlights:
- Cover pictures and summaries
- Refine your search
- Relevace ranking
- Spell checker
- Choose your favourite library/region
- Find other editions
- Customize LIBRIS and set your preferences
- Several reference formats
- Search outside LIBRIS
- Put LIBRIS on your site
- Short response times
Source: Libris Helppages
http://librishelp.libris.kb.se/help/help_eng.jsp
