BookWhere, an innovative software package that can search multiple online reference databases simultaneously through a single interface, is now available from Adept Scientific
Following an agreement between Adept and the publisher, WebClarity Software, WebClarity's product range - BookWhere, BookWhere Academic, BookWhere Online and Marc Notepad - is now supplied and supported in all the territories where Adept operates, including the UK and Ireland, Germany and the Nordic countries.
Adding an extra dimension to Adept's bibliographic product line, BookWhere is the perfect companion software for popular reference management packages such as EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite.
Designed for librarians, researchers and students who need to conduct comprehensive literature searches to find reference material located in some 2000 online libraries and databases, it works as an efficient search front-end for those packages.
An ideal tool for quickly locating resources and capturing citation information, BookWhere allows you to perform 'spray searches' across many different online databases at the same time.
Despite the fact that most of these databases have different search screens and user interfaces, with BookWhere you only have to fill out one search form which then queries your chosen resources and returns the references which meet your criteria.
It saves hours of tedious form-filling.
Whatever your field of research, BookWhere will enable you to query hundreds of academic, public and national libraries with ease - and once you have found your references you can send them directly to your bibliographic management package.
BookWhere will export records in native EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite formats and well as XML and plain text.
As well as providing a fast means of gathering relevant bibliographic data, BookWhere also helps you expedite the interlibrary loan process by quickly locating desired material in any number of libraries located around the world.
The recently released new version, BookWhere 5, offers a number of significant improvements including a new Choose Databases Window for selecting your favourite libraries and managing database groups; and a powerful new batch search capability including reporting of unmatched keys.
Together with the product's sophisticated search capabilities, customisable search parameters and analysis window that breaks down results by subject for quick filtering, these new features make BookWhere 5 an essential tool for librarians and cataloguers, and for individual researchers and students who have their own custom version, BookWhere Academic.
BookWhere 5 offers a multilingual user interface (English, French, Spanish, German and Italian), and includes character set support for Unicode, Marc-8 (ALA) and Latin-1 encoded records.
A companion product to BookWhere of particular value to librarians is Marc Notepad, which is also available from Adept Scientific.
Many librarians import Marc records into their local automation system which are then retrieved and modified at a later time.
With Marc Notepad, they can perform simple edits on records captured with BookWhere, remove extraneous tags and sub-fields and add local holdings information at the point of capture.
This can dramatically improve overall copy cataloguing workflow.
A further option, BookWhere Online, is a web-based cataloguing service, available on an annual subscription basis.
As the ability to search and retrieve Marc records is delivered online through a standard web browser, BookWhere Online meets the needs of users behind strong firewalls (because it does not need firewall configuration) and (because it is independent of platform) is ideal for users of Macintosh and other operating systems.
BookWhere, BookWhere Academic, BookWhere Online and Marc Notepad are available in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Scandinavia and Finland from Adept Scientific.
