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UniCat SRU

The SRU server for UniCat can be found at: http://www.unicat.be/sru.

Available indexes:

abstract	Abstract
alti	Alternative Title
author	Author
firstAdded	First Added Date
isbn	ISBN
issn	ISSN
jtitle	Journal Title
keyword	Keyword
language	Language
media	Media Type
provide	Provider
publisher	Publisher
title	Title
year	Year

Some example queries:

• Search for 'dna':

  http://www.unicat.be/sru?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dna

• Search for 'dna' and 'repair' in the title index. The CQL query is: title = "DNA repair"

  http://www.unicat.be/sru?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=title+=+%22DNA+repair%22

• Return the next 10 records from the previous query:

  http://www.unicat.be/sru?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=title+=+%22DNA+repair%22&startRecord=20

• Search for 'dna' and 'repair' in the title index and 'elsevier' in the publisher index. The CQL query is: title = "DNA repair" and publisher = elsevier

  http://www.unicat.be/sru?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=title+=+%22DNA+repair%22+and+publisher+=+elsevier

• Search for 'dna', return results as Dublin Core records:

  http://www.unicat.be/sru?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dna&recordSchema=dc

• Search for 'dna', return results as MARC xml records:

  http://www.unicat.be/sru?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dna&recordSchema=marcxml

More information about SRU and the CQL query syntax: http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/

You can test the UniCat SRU server using http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/SRUServerTester.html

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