[Odonata-l] odonatological literature database

[Dennis Paulson]

Odonatological literature – Database

For more than 15 years I have maintained an odonatological library  
and a database with at present more than 23,300 publications. More  
then 6000 key words help to open the papers for hidden information.  
App. 6000 odonatological abstracts and hundreds of pdf files are also  
available, organized for my database.

To check how it works (but without the links to the pdfs) please  
visit the following homepage: www.lidos.de, or check a sample  
odonatological database with app. 1000 citations at www.ifaust.de/ 
libelle. Lidos is the leading software in Germany to organize  
libraries, and it is an absolutely perfect and professional software.  
I never had any problems with it.

Persons interested in my odonatological database can buy it for 495  
US $ (including shipping). To work with it, you need Lidos 6.0 (for  
details of this software see the Lidos homepage mentioned above). If  
you intend to buy this program, you should contact me. It will be  
possible to get a discount up to 25% depending on the number of  
persons who want to buy it. Lidos is available for app. 750 Euro  
(app. 900 US $); if you are working or studying at a university it is  
possible to get a discount up to 40%. Together with my database, this  
is a lot of money. But consider how many hundreds of hours you would  
have to spend to make or to perfect your own database. And if you own  
my database, you can simply amend it according your own ideas. And  
you can produce many additional databases on birds, orchids, whatever  
you want.

If you should prefer, I can mail or ship you regularly a writable  
update (this means an importable file with new odonatological  
publications, pdfs etc.) of the database (see next paragraph).

Beside having the full version of Lidos, there are two additional  
possibilities to get access to my odonatological database:

(1) Lidos has written a program comparable to Adobe Acrobat Reader.  
This program - FUL Reader - is free, you can download it from the  
Lidos homepage, and it enables you to read any Lidos database. But,  
you only can read data and export text files in different formats  
including pdfs. It is not possible to maintain it by adding your own  
data sets. I sell my database in this read-only form for 100 Euro  
plus 16 Euro taxes (app. 140 US $) and shipping costs. It will be  
possible to get updates, each 15 Euro plus taxes (app. 21 US $) and  
shipping or mailing it at any interval you want.

I am working nearly every day with it, writing abstracts, making new  
entries, key wording, correcting errors, etc.

(2) There is also the possiblity to get a password-protected access  
to the Lidos server where my database could be positioned. But I only  
will do so if there are at least 25 persons interested. This service  
would be available for an annual amount of 115 Euro (app. 160-170 US  
$) including 4 annual updates of the server.

If you should have interest in my odonatological database in any form  
please contact me:

Martin Schorr
Editor of the Odonatological Abstract Service
Schulstr. 7B
54314 Zerf
Germany
martinschorr at onlinehome.de


There is one disadvantage of Lidos for many: The web site is written  
in German. But German is not difficult to understand, and I will be  
happy to help if necessary. To check the database (www.ifaust.de/ 
libelle) the following information will appear:

Wählen Sie den Zugang zur Datenbank
... mit Themenliste
Finden Sie hier Einträge zum Thema "Geschichte der Odonatologie".  
Geschichte_der_Odonatologie
Einträge zum Thema "Hetaerina Americana". Hetaerina_americana
Hier finden Sie Einträge zur Libellenforschung in Nordrhein- 
Westfalen. Libellen_in_NRW
... mit einer Suchmaske
Recherche nach bibliographischen Angaben bibliographische Suche
Recherchieren Sie nach Deskriptoren und Erscheinungsjahren Recherche  
im Thesaurus
Mit dieser OPAC suchen Sie nach Wörtern und Wortteilen in allen  
Feldern freie Suche
... mit einem Thesaurus
Thesaurus
... mit einem Index
Personen
Titelangabe
Signaturen
Reihe
Erscheinungsjahr


Translated into English:

Choose your access to the database
....Themes:
a) Find entries to "History of odonatology"
b) Hetaerina americana
c) Dragonfly research in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)

....with a mask
a) bibliographic search
b) search in the thesaurus (key word list)
c) free search, looking for words or parts of words

....with a thesaurus
a) You have the possibility to click a key word. If it is represented  
in this database of 1000 publications, you will get information by  
your mouse. Click on the link, and you will get all documents  
containing this key word.

... with an index
the following indices are available:
Persons / authors
titles of publications
signatures
journal
year of appearance
  The indices with author, journal and year will be of most value for  
you


Note in proof: The pdfs are a service not included in preparing and  
calculating the costs of the database. All pdfs have been found  
browsing the internet and had or have a free access. I don't have the  
copyright for these pdfs with very few exceptions. All I do with them  
is link them to my database as a free service. Additional note: the  
pdfs are not available at the two URLs listed above.
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