Similarities

• Most functions are unchanged: (simple) search, advanced search, browsing the indexes, requests from the closed stacks, reserving books, extending the loan period, saving and mailing titles
• Like the "old" one, the new catalogue contains individual publications, such as books, journals, manuscripts, e-books, maps and atlases, etc. For finding articles there are other resources (e.g. bibliographic databases in the Digital Library)
• Library cards and UvA student cards remain valid for requesting and loaning titles.

Differences

The new catalogue…

• shows in the list of hits if a title is available and where
• shows information from Google Book Search (book cover, table of contents, full text)
• allows direct export to EndNote
• sends alerts via email and RSS for new titles of your interest
• has filters to limit searches to one or more libraries and/or languages
• covers the Museum collections and the (paper) Master’s theses.

Support

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