Who we are and what you get
dandelon.com is an independent academic library catalogue produced by a sharing community of libraries in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. We capture tables of contents of printed and electronic books and run AI based translation and deep indexing. So you can search more specific than with normal library subject indexing. Main subjects areas are social science, economics, natural science, life science, technologies and art, and regional literature about Western, Eastern and Northern Europe and South America. About 10.000 items are added monthly. There are links to holding libraries and the KVK for searching holdings at other libraries globally or at booksellers. Some libraries extract article references from 1500 printed periodicals, often not available online elsewhere.
Seven good reasons for dandelon.com
1. Automatic display of content
2. AI based deep indexing for more specific search results
3. No fees for private use
4. Connects you to libraries for physical access
5. We do never misuse your user data
6. There is no advertising
7. Monitor latest additions in realtime before you deliver your papers or thesis, use button "Newest"
Latest News
Cover, TOC, Bibliography, Index, Abstract (image), Abstract (text), Translations, Download to reference manager
Work parts of books added: Cover pages, subject index, bibliography and summaries
The Herder-Institut in Marburg started to add work parts, to open a deeper look into registers and bibliographies. We implemented additional navigation buttons. As an example you can search "Newest" books (the button at the top), select in the facets (red filter icon) the Herder Institut (DE_IN_Herder) and switch above the content display area with the icon to show cover pages and browse with the large blue buttons through these cover pages. Example:
dandelon.com. The same content is provided addtionally to
HEBIS catalog.
The meaning of the icons are: Cover Page, Table of Contents, Bibliography, Subject Index, Abstract (Image), Abstract (Text), Translation, Download to reference manager.
dandelon.COMmunity
dandelon.com is a European pioneer in catalogue enrichment. All producing libraries use intelligentCAPTURE for digitization, indexing and translation. Tables of contents of printed books and ebooks as well as bibliographic information of periodicals are processed. In 2001 Manfred Hauer from AGI, Germany, and Karl Raedler from Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek, Austria, started against many obstacles - and finally it got a standard in multiple countries. All participating libraries will be found when you search "*" - just an asterisk - and see the facet "Libraries".
dandelon.com is financed by Manfred Hauer, head of AGI - Information Management Consultants. It is his political project for a global exchange of well-founded academic knowledge. dandelon.com generates no revenues. The servers are located at public owned German based "Gemeinsamem Bibliotheksverbund"(GBV)located in Göttingen and shared with their pretty large catalog: K10plus. Additionally these content is shared with other library service centers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
"Flying of thoughts" … why the name dandelon?
Readers take up ideas and knowledge from multiple media and form new variants in their own works and publications. In the spring of 2004, the winyards in front of our office where full of dandelions. I associated this “flying of thoughts” with this plant, whose seeds fly over the fields, take root and allow new blossoms to grow. So I formed the artificial word “dandelon” for our catalogue of academic literature. The word was new and easily spoken in all languages.
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