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HPB Access
Login and search the HPB
CERL members and others who have authorisation can login and search the HPB free of charge. If you know your authorisation code and password, go to the HPB interface.
Free Trial Accounts
Individuals from institutions which are not CERL members may obtain a free trial account for access to the HPB Database by sending an e-mail to CERL’s Executive Manager, Marian.Lefferts@cerl.org.
Please ensure that your e-mail address and other contact details are included in the body of the message.
HPB Access
The HPB Database is hosted by VZG, Göttingen, via a web interface (http://hpb.cerl.org), but we also offer SRU and Z39.50 access upon request.
Use statistics
CERL receives an annual high-level report of the use of the HPB database by its members. This report is presented to the CERL membership at its Annual General Meeting.
Scripted Access / IP Recognition
CERL encourages its Members to allow public access to the HPB database through one or more terminals in the institute’s reading room(s). Since it is important that a member’s account and password do not become known to members of the public, CERL recommends that the terminals in the reading rooms log-on with the aid of scripted access. Please note that IP recognition of terminals is only possible for access via FirstSearch. IP recognition can also be set up for staff members.
Many CERL members are making use of IP recognition to access the HPB Database. Please ensure that all URLs begin with firstsearch.oclc.org. More information may be found on http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/getting_started/ipweb/default.htm.
Connexion
CERL is now, for the first time, able to offer an editing facility for HPB Database records. Those organisations that have contributed records are given the opportunity to edit those records directly in the HPB, through OCLC’s Connexion facilities. Connexion is OCLC's cataloguing service: a powerful, flexible suite of tools with built-in access to WorldCat, used by many libraries to create and edit bibliographic and authority records.
The HPB is made available through the OCLC Connexion Browser, which is MARC21 based and Unicode compliant, supports record creation in Latin script and record viewing in a number of scripts including Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew, and which offers interfaces in English and French. Records may be exported in MARC-8 format, either to a file for downloading or to a local system via TCP/IP. A recording of a demonstration of the Connexion browser is now available at Using the Connexion Browser to access the HPB. Alternatively, you may simply view the power point slides.
In addition, the HPB is available through OCLC’s Connexion Client, MARC21 based and Unicode compliant Windows-based software that supports record creation in Latin and some non-Latin scripts (such as Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew), and interfaces in English, German, Spanish as well as a number of non-European languages. Records may be exported in MARC-8 or Unicode (UTF-8) format, either to a file on a PC or to a local system via TCP/IP.
Public Access
More information can be found on Public access to the HPB.
Free Access for Cluster Libraries
More information can be found on Access for Cluster libraries.
HPB Access in the RLG environment
From 30 September 2007 the HPB Database is no longer available via Eureka on the Web, RLIN21 or Zephyr.
