Standards Compliant
• MARC 21, Z39.50, SQL, ANSI X11, etc.

Includes Comprehensive Serials & Electronic Resources Management
• Critical in a research environment.
• Eliminates extra steps for check-in and routing, reduces manual work.
• Claims management and library-defined warnings for missing issues.
• Bindery cycles according to your bindery rules.
• OPAC elegantly displays serials holdings and links to e-journals.
• OpenURL for link resolution from databases such as Ovid, EbscoHOST, and Serials Solutions.

You Tailor To Your Own Needs
• Run on your server, or access your database via the Web with our popular Hosting.
• You control fonts, colors, and background. Add your library or organization logo, other useful links.
• You map functionality, set policy with hundreds of settings for Circulation and OPAC words, terms, even search and display logic.

Price: Performance
• More features, lower fees.

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The CyberTools OPAC is compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

What Makes the CyberTools Online Public Access Catalog Unique?
The Finest Human-Computer Interactions.
Your search tools are presented in an intuitive, elegant display. CyberTools markets your resources with fast, comprehensive, reliable search results.
• Links to images, graphics, web sites, full access to E-Journals, databases. Images and URLs are linked via an unlimited number of MARC tag 856 subfield u entries per record. URL tester filters out-of-date URLs so your patrons don't waste time.
• You choose OPAC fonts, colors, backgrounds. Add your logo or other graphics, and even change the terms used on OPAC menus and set policy for search logic!
• Optional MeSH integration.
• See and See Also are indexed and searchable.
• Subject Heading explosion can optionally include See Related items.
• Holdings status and location, and for serials, a concise holdings string plus optional volume/issue details.
• View Recent Arrivals: display new acquisitions or the newest journal titles. Post new arrivals to an e-mail list or web site.
• Automatic Interest Notification for patrons.
• Customized OPAC interfaces for multiple user needs.
• Search one or more catalogs in a Shared/Union configuration.
• Patron may optionally place items on hold, renew, or edit own account.

Enhanced Searching.
• Search by keyword, author, title, subject heading, or number (ISSN, ISBN, OCLC, LCCN, Call Number, etc.).
• Search single or multiple catalogs.
• Word order doesn't matter, and truncation is handled elegantly. Example: "New England Journal", "Journal Engl", or "N E J M" will each find the New England Journal of Medicine.
• Search with ease: words are normalized from English or Canadian spelling to American, diphthongs, possessives, plurals, punctuation, etc.
• Search with assistance: patrons can check their understanding of a search term by clicking a "Define" button, a handy feature for both sophisticated and simple research!

User-Designed Search Results. Search results are provided in a brief display, with prompts for user-selected options for further detail. Patrons can browse "shelves" of similarly cataloged works. Saved results can be edited, annotated, and saved (via print, disk, and e-mail to self or staff) for later use. Images, electronic media, web sites, and online journals can be directly accessed. Bibliographic and serial issues search results can be sorted by short or full title, author, call number, material type, latest issue, or location (like grocery lists), and expressed in the following formats:
• Custom, designed by the patron
• Detail
• MARC
• Bibliography

Search results show why a record matched: for example, if search, "low back pain", is being expanded to all variations of these words, then one record might match on "low back pain" while another matches on "lower backache pain". Or, if multiple subject headings are being searched, such as HIV-1 and HIV-2, then the search results show the records that match which term, or both terms.

Patrons can review their accounts including current loans, requested holds, fines, and more. At the option of the library and with security, users can renew their own loans, place items on hold, clear items on hold, set the number of days for a due date reminder to themselves, and update their own demographic information.

Power Search by Enhanced Subject Headings:
The Researcher's Choice
• Comprehensive searching
• Prompts for related searches
• Displays search relationships
• Provides clinical definitions

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Cataloging Functions
Your CyberTools for Libraries database centers on MARC bibliographic records, so it's easy to manage your holdings.
• Create, edit, receive, remove, export, and store records in MARC format
• DDC, LC, NLM, and/or Planetree classification systems
• LC, NLM MeSH, and/or Local Subject Headings
• NLM MeSH interface
• Print Spine and/or Pocket Labels: you select the label fonts and value ranges(examples: copy number, location, year) and start row and column label to eliminate label discards!
• Import any MARC record from any source (e.g., OCLC,MARCIVE, NLM, LC).
• Duplicate Bib Report
• For more information, see MARC Standards Website

Authority Functions
• Display/Edit Authority Records
• Add Name Authority Record
• Merge Name Authority Records
• Remove Name Authority Records
• Add Subject Headings
• Add Subject Qualifiers
• Remove Subject Authority Records
• Print Authorities
• Print Qualifiers

E-Journals, Complete Electronic Resources Management
Powerful tools help you upload, edit and maintain your electronic resources directly in your CyberTools for Libraries catalog, so your OPAC serves as a simple portal to your resources. You achieve full access to e-journals via through the 856 MARC tag: libraries choose to either attach a link to the current bib, or create a new "on-line" bibliographic record.

MeSH Updates Synchronized
CyberTools optionally delivers the annual NLM MeSH changes to you, complete with scope notes, "X", and "See Related" changes. At the same time, all the bibliographic records are also updated, resulting in your current MeSH Authority being synchronized with your bibs. This makes the search vocabulary really work, and promotes powerful, relevant search, retrieval, and reporting. A related amazing feature and one unique to CyberTools for Libraries: MARCout to Standard Distribution!

Bibliographic Linkage
The indexing tools automatically link monographic series to series titles. For example, Frontiers of Neurology/1997 is actually volume 835 of the monographic series Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. The indexing allows this title to be found as "Frontiers of Neurology" (or any combination of some of these words) or as "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 835" (or any combinations of some of these words and number 835). This is important since citations often use the series title and volume number rather than the actual issue's title. The indexing is triggered by the title having the MARC values of tag 440 Series Statement/Added Entry (SAE)--Title, subfield $a Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and subfield $v 835. Any of the other SAE tags and subfields will yield the same results.

A further tool to enhance bibliographic records is Analytic Linkage. Analytic Linkage can be used for "in analytic" cataloging, whereby the library might want to highlight a (local) author's contribution to a title. By creating the main title's bibliographic record, and then by separately creating a bibliographic record that cites the author's contribution (e.g., a chapter title) to the main title, this second bib can use Analytic Linkage to tie the two bibs together.

The more common use of Analytic Linkage is to further tie monographic series volumes together under the series title. First, create a bib for monographic series itself. Then, create the individual volume bibs. Lastly, use Analytic Linkage to link the individual volume bibs to the monographic series bib. The payoff is in the OPAC: when a patron examines the monographic series bib, the patron will also see all of the individual volume titles!

URL Tester
The CyberTools URL tester regularly tests all URLs from the MARC Bibliographic 856 tag subfield u, producing a list of failures. The failures need to be re-tested later to verify that each failure was not momentary (as when the Web server was temporarily down, or during a network problem). This re-testing is iterative and under your control. Once a failure threshold has been passed, the bad URLs will be noted in a local MARC tag, blocked from the OPAC display, and reported to you. CyberTools also reports URL hits on an aggregate, monthly basis. Privacy is protected, but you're equipped with the management reporting you need.

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Libraries create their own circulation parameters, and have a rich resource of patron, inventory, and system management tools. You have complete flexibility in setting and updating your own policies. A simple, intuitive interface makes training your staff fast and easy. Multitasking Circulation staff can access multiple windows and functions at one time.

• Loan, return, renew, hold, trace, and recall items, overrides, internal circulation.
• Automatic overdue and fines alerts and other notices via postcard, letter, and/or e-mail.
• Paron Self Loan!
• Patron Management: library controls whether Patrons update their own records, change passwords, set number of days before due-date reminders.
• Inventory Management: bar code by book, serial issue, audiovisual, temporaries, etc.; Serials check-in identifies missing issues.
• System Management Reporting. Dozens of relevant activity reports assist you in managing library operations. Plus, many new reports have been created for you by CyberTools in Crystal Reports, a popular off-the-shelf ad hoc reporting tool. Or, make your own custom reports in Crystal Reports!

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CyberTools saves you valuable time with efficient serials check-in and routing, claiming, bindery management, reporting, integration with online resources, and other smart features. This powerful Serials Management Module also works with other library systems. Learn more here or contact CyberTools for Libraries.

Serial Titles are added easily, and global editing capabilities make updates easy. A copy is tied to individual titles, and serial issues are checked in to specifified copies. You have the detailed information you need to effectively and efficiently manage your print and online titles.

Each Serial Copy Records:
• Vendor for this Copy
• Expected Year, Month (or Period), Day
• Expected Volume, Issue, and Running Issue
• Issues Per Volume
• Volumes per Year
• Issue Publication Frequency
• Late Warning Days
• Bind Per Volume
• Free Text Holdings String
• Block in OPAC
• Bar Code Each Issue Flag
• Circulation Class, Status, and Location
• Journal Check In Note