PUMA

Discovery Service

Many libraries in Germany use Resource Discovery Services (RDS) for inventory management. PUMA provides a direct RDS interface and is supported by mostly all university libraries in Hessen (HeBIS-Verbund).

Here is a list with the libraries that certainly support PUMA:

• Suchportal der ULB Darmstadt
• Suchportal Frankfurt am Main
• JustFind UB Gießen
• KARLA II - Das Rechercheportal der Universität Kassel
• Rechercheportal der Universitätsbibliothek Mainz
• Katalog Plus - Das Rechercheportal der Universität Marburg
• FILIP - Suchportal der Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek Fulda
• Katalog Plus der Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek Rhein-Main
• THMfind - Suchportal der Technischen Hochschule Mittelhessen

You may ask your library to find out if PUMA is supported. The following instructions describe how you can store publications from the library catalogue directly in your bibliography in PUMA.

1. Use the library's HeBIS interface to find a publication. In this example publications about "textmining" are searched.
2. Click on "remind" or "send to". If a menu appears, choose PUMA (some libraries don't provide a menu but proceed directly to the next step).
3. Fill out the form and click on "save". The entry will be saved in PUMA under publications.

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