The database & press article indexing
References
The documentary solution that reveals the articles inside the journals and magazines in your library.
The IndexPresse Advantage
Time saved in the library — Make reception, mediation, and thematic requests easier to handle.
Compatible with your ILS — Decalog, Syrtis, Syracuse (Archimed), Orphee (C3RB), BGM (GMInvent), VSmart (Axiel), Koha (BibLibre), Nanook (AFI), and others.
Tailored delivery — Choose the record format, frequency (daily, weekly, monthly), and channel (email, FTP server, admin space).
In step with publications — Journals are indexed as each issue is published, with little delay between an issue's release and its records.
Professional records — RAMEAU indexing carried out by professional documentalists, ready to integrate into your ILS.
Cover thumbnails included — Each article is displayed with its issue cover for immediate visual identification.
They use the References, periodical indexing for libraries database
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FAQ
Answers to your main questions
Usage
Who is References for?
Any library that wants to showcase the journals it subscribes to: municipal libraries and media libraries, metropolitan, departmental, corporate, works-council and high-school libraries, public reading networks, French institutes abroad…
Can it reflect our own collection?
We send you only the records for journals held in your collection: send us your subscriptions, we check the match with our corpus and align deliveries accordingly. Historical backfiles can also be included.
How are the records produced?
Each article is selected and described by documentalists, then indexed in RAMEAU, the standardized vocabulary used by French libraries. You receive records ready to integrate.
What does press article indexing mean for a library?
Press article indexing means analyzing journals article by article to produce records searchable by subject, author, title, journal, date, or summary.
It makes the precise contents of a periodical collection visible, instead of limiting discovery to the journal title.
Access
How does deployment work?
References integrates with your existing ILS. You choose the format, frequency, and delivery channel, and we can coordinate with your ILS provider to ease integration if needed. We support configuration and onboarding.
Is there an online access point for our users?
Yes, through the References portal: a ready-to-use space where users can find and consult articles, with advanced search by subject, journal, date, and more. The scope is flexible: our full indexed corpus or, through a filter, only the journals available in your holdings.
Does References provide access to full text?
By default, References provides article records. As an option, the References portal gives access to PDFs — from your holdings and from our full corpus — as well as a summary of each article.
Can References records be integrated into an ILS?
Yes. The records are designed to be delivered in the format and at the frequency defined with the library, so they can feed the catalog or existing documentary tools.
The goal is to showcase journals already present in the collection without imposing a new workflow on library teams.