Archiva

ARCHIVA
BOOKS
(Library Search)

INCLUDED IN ARCHIVA PREMIUM & ARCHIVA PLATINUM

Archiva Books (Library Search) lets you search hundreds of major university and research libraries, right from within Nota Bene/Ibidem. To initiate a search, simply press Ctrl+L in Ibidem—the Archiva On-Line Library Search dialog will be displayed:

Select the libraries you want to search on the left panel
• Your selected subset of preferred libraries will be displayed
• The libraries last searched will be checked

Type in the search text on the right panel
• A full range of advanced search options are available

After you click Search, the Search Results panel, summarizing the active search, will be displayed:

The results are shown for each library, along with the cumulative results for the entire search
• The results for previous searches can also be retained (as here), or removed

Alternatively, you can bypass the Search Results display, and go directly to the actual retrieved records

Normally all retrieved matches are saved to the Archiva On-Line Library Search Results database (they are simply added to whatever entries are already there from any previous searches).

You can also, if you prefer, display the results in your browser, as you would had you started a similar
(single-library) search outside of Nota Bene

You can then—as in all the other Archiva modules—simply choose them all, or check the works you want (or the ones you want to exclude) and then easily append them to the Ibidem database(s) of your choosing.

Archiva Books lets you select which libraries (from over 500 predefined university and research libraries) you want to have in your “favorites” list:

You can also add your own libraries, or change the properites on existing libraries:

There are literally hundreds—probably thousands—of other libraries that you can add

Your librarian should be able to tell you which parameters you need to add to support your library

Note that the libraries that Archiva Books can search are those that use the library-industy-standard Z39.50 protocol. There are countless other libraries which you can add, as noted above, but they must support this protocol.

Best of all, Archiva Books does this all seamlessly from within Nota Bene/Ibidem—there’s no need to launch an external program, to learn different commands, or to go through a complicated process of incorporating the data from external files into your Ibidem database. Rather than forcing you to do something different, Archiva Books lets you do everything in a comfortable, familiar, environment. It’s a fully-integrated—sophisticated but simple—extension of the Ibidem that you have come to rely on for all your bibliographic work. Since what you are searching for already appears, on the very first encounter, in Ibidem format, you’ll feel right at home. And feeling at home, you’ll be able to work faster, more comfortably, and more creatively than you could before.

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