Metasearch Engine

The meta-search engine makes it possible to search for the historically relevant materials in multiple heterogeneous databases. Now you can search within more than thirty catalogues, databases and websites for historians.

You can start another search (Google-Search, KVK-Search etc.) by using SFX: your searchresults will be pushed to these services by SFX if you click a "SFX via .." Link (available on each record).

The Link "SFX via HU-Berlin" use the local SFX-Server of the Humboldt-University. The Link "SFX via OpenUrl" first looks for a SFX-Server which is responseable for the institution wherefrom you are using this metasearch-engine followed by pushing your searchresult to the accordingly SFX-Server.

This is a beta-release of the new Clio-online Metasearch-Engine Interface. Furthermore you can use the old interface at http://clio.kobv.de.

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Instructions

Search: In the QUICK SEARCH you can simply enter your words or phrases. In the ADVANCED SEARCH please enter a searchterm with a minimum length of three characters. Select the databases you want to search and click SEARCH.


Select databases: In the QUICK SEARCH you can select predefined sets of databases or websites. In the ADVANCED SEARCH you can select up to nineteen databases for parallel search. Either you select the databases from the general set or you select predefined sets for archives and sources, libraries, bibliographies, pictures and maps, portals, fulltext databases (e.g. reviews) or journal(articles).

Searchfields: The most databases support field search by title, author, keywords, years, ISBN or ISSN.

Boolean Operators: In the ADVANCED SEARCH you can use boolean operators like AND, OR, NOT, but it's not supported by all target databases! Therefore it's recommended to use the two searchboxes and dropdownlist for boolean operators.

The QUICK SEARCH does not support boolean operators at this time. You can enter one or more word to search for.


Character set/Encoding: If characters are not displayed correctly, check your browser settings and correct this to UTF-8/Unicode.

Merge record: You can merge up to 200 record from different targets. If there are more than 200 hits the merge function will use only the first 200 records from you results.

Basket

Basket: You can store records in the basket by clicking the hyperlink to the right of each record. It's possible to print or save the basket in simple formats. Special formats for citation databases will be available in the future.

Errors

LOCAL ERROR ...- A local error occured in the system.

REMOTE ERROR ...- During search an error occured in the remote search system.

ROOT ELEMENT MISSING... - During conversion and transmission of data an error occured. Mostly one or more records are not visible. With a new search the error should disappear.

INTERNAL SERVER ERROR... - This error can occur during maintenance. If this message stays for a long time during several searches, an error occured. You can send an message to the

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