Services for libraries, archives & institutions

A clear structure, technical and editorial norms, secure working with the publishers' original data. Discover why libraries, archives and institutions in numerous countries use the IDNV system!

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IDNV for libraries & archives
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Libraries & archives

Your benefits and services as IDNV participant

Technology for your daily research purposes:

Participating retailers gain access to the high-value and user-friendly IDNV software IDNV-Catalog.

  • Search efficiently the up-to-date original publishers' catalog data in one source
  • Find detailed information for your acquisitions lists and customer information services
  • Gain access to information on availability, new items, price changes, ISMN and order numbers directly from the publishers
  • Use the integrated notepad feature to save and call up interesting items again at any time

Security & liability for your research:

With the IDNV you gain access to a research system you can rely on.

  • Editorial norms and reference lists provide a clear and reliable data structure
  • Daily data updates via the secure data exchange with the IDNV central server
  • Usage of the technical infrastructure of the IDNV
  • Display of reference prices

Benefit from further advantages:

  • Professional support via email or telephone
  • Free software updates
  • Registration in the participant and industry directory

Optional services for your individual needs

  • Multi-user version also for use over a network
  • Frequent data updates per CD-ROM
  • ERP Mapping System for efficient and comfortable data mapping
  • catalogue@web (for online research; only available in English)

IDNV-Catalog - The research system

The IDNV-Catalog is the system for searching, with which it is possible to search, quickly and flexibly, in various publishers' catalogs of different countries. The content of the IDNV is not pre-selected but is the original publisher data with their own identification numbers. You can obtain all the publishers' changes and new items on a daily basis via the data exchange system.

  • Quick, flexible searching possibilities in all the databases and fields
  • Individual display of items (item window)
  • Searching possibilities according to many criteria simultaneously
  • The notepad makes it possible to save interesting items into a personalised database
  • Reference lists for instrument or composer selection
  • Supports the use of a barcode scanner (ISMN, and also ISBN, EAN, UPC)
  • Printing possibilities (individual display of items, printing the notepad)
  • Content information for many anthologies
  • Quick and secure online update