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	What is zevep \| central e-book catalogue?
	zevep \| central e-book catalogue offers its users central access to e-publications of numerous academic and scientific publishers and other professional providers of electronic publications.

	Is zevep \| central e-book catalogue just a catalogue?
	No, zevep offers far more. All titles which can be found are one click away at the most, ready for download or purchase.

How does zevep | central e-book cataloguework?

1. We implement metadata i.e. information about e-books and other e-publications. A link directs the user to the external provider´s website.
2. If external providers allow us access to their publications, we index the full text to offer our users a high-quality full text search based on XML. A link directs the user to the external provider´s website.
3. Users can perform a full text search and purchase documents of our partner publishers directly via zevep.

	What can I find?
	Already, users can find and download millions of e-publications via zevep, either as paid content or completely free of charge. The numbers high-quality digital content available through zevep are continuously increasing. Also, all digital content equipped with a digital standard number (DOI / URN) can be resolved.

	What kind of content can I find?
	zevep users can conveniently access high-quality and quotable digital content, in particular e-publications by publishers and other providers from the field of science and research.

	Why do item details differ in length and quality?
	Item details that users can find via zevep come from different providers. Some do not list all information of an e-publication.

	Can all content be submitted to full-text search?
	Content can only be searched by full-text search when the providers have agreed on letting us index their full texts. The number of publications which can be searched this way is continuously increasing.

	Why can I not download a certain item?
	Free content is not hosted on the zevep website, but allocated on the websites of external providers. Download problems, errors in item details or the display of fonts as well as server problems of external providers sometimes can affect the functionality of our service.

How is the relevance of the search results determined?

The search results’ relevance is determined by a ratio of the results and the text length. Deciding factors are the appearance of one or more search terms in the title, the subtitle, the abstract or the full text and the altogether length of the text. The most striking feature of zevep´s full text search lies in complex search queries. For our relevance ranking it makes a great difference whether two search terms (e.g. "Shakespeare" and "Marlowe") appear on the same page or just anywhere in the document (e.g. "Shakespeare" on page 23 and "Marlowe" on page 278).

	What formats do the items available through zevep come in?
	Most content you can find and download via zevep is available in PDF-format. However, other formats will become available as well (especially HTML and the upcoming standard format for e-book-reading devices EPUB). In order to read and print PDF-files, you can use Adobe Reader. The current free version is available: