SRU

SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) is a pro­to­col based on HTTP to per­form data­ba­se queries. Search queries can be sub­mit­ted via a URL in CQL (Con­tex­tu­al Query Lan­guage). The retur­ned results can be deli­ver­ed in various biblio­gra­phic for­mats via XML.

Formats offered by Leipzig University Library

The fol­lo­wing table lists the available out­put formats:

For­mat Name Type Descrip­ti­on
dc Dub­lin core application/xml Dub­lin Core
marcxml MARC XML application/xml MARC data in XML

General Settings

The fol­lo­wing table lists the gene­ral settings:

Base URL https://sru.finc.info
Data­ba­se de15
Cha­rac­ter set utf‑8
Record Sche­ma MARCXML, Dub­lin Core
SRU Ver­si­on 1.1

Search attributes

The fol­lo­wing table lists available search attributes:

dc.creator, dc.author Aut­hor, Institution
dc.title Title
dc.identifier ISBN / ISSN / ISMN
bath.issn ISSN
bath.conferenceName Con­fe­rence name
bath.corporateName Cor­po­ra­te name
dc.subject Sub­ject
dc.date Date
dc.publisher Publisher
bib1.vdnr VD Num­ber

Usage

You can access the ser­vice at sru.finc.info. You can retrie­ve the UBL cata­lo­gue via SRU by using the address https://sru.finc.info as BaseURL.

• Exam­p­le URL for a search­Retrie­ve ope­ra­ti­on; the key­word “Basics” is sear­ched for in the title index of the data­ba­se “de15” with a maxi­mum of 10 resul­ting records in the for­mat “marcxml”:

http://sru.finc.info/de15?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=dc.title=Basics&maximumRecords=10&recordSchema=marcxml

• Exam­p­le URL for a search­Retrie­ve ope­ra­ti­on; the key­word “Basics” is sear­ched for in the title index of the data­ba­se “de15” with a maxi­mum of 10 resul­ting records in the for­mat “dc”:

http://sru.finc.info/de15?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=dc.title=Basics&maximumRecords=10&recordSchema=dc

Combination of search attributes

• Exam­p­le URL for a search­Retrie­ve ope­ra­ti­on; the key­word “Basics” in the title index is sear­ched for by the aut­hor “Lem” in the data­ba­se “de15” with a maxi­mum of 10 resul­ting records in the for­mat “marcxml”:

https://sru.finc.info/de15?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=dc.title=Eden%20and%20dc.author=Lem&maximumRecords=10&recordSchema=marcxml

For more infor­ma­ti­on, see http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/

Automated queries

An auto­ma­ted retrie­val or auto­ma­ted down­load via script is limi­t­ed to 100 records per query.

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