MARCView™

Used in 54 Countries around the World

OPEN-SOURCE NOW AVAILABLE Updated June 18, 2009. You may now download the source code and documentation for MARCView and MARConvert, free to the community under the Apache 2.0 license. Source code and documentation Documentation only (provided as ODT and PDF) We are working with an organization who wishes to sponsor the source code; this organization will be able to provide mechanisms such as a repository and listservs. We regret that we cannot provide these, but in the meantime, we offer the code and documentation. Please see the documentation for the tools required to work with the code. Please email any questions about the code and documentation to info@systemsplanning.com. We will do our best to help you. Background: After 16 years, we have decided to stop developing MARCView and MARConvert in order to focus on other projects. You may continue to order MARCView from our ecommerce site. Of course it will keep working forever, so this change will not reduce its value. Please see the Order Page for prices and links. We are no longer taking orders for MARConvert. We will continue to honor our support policies: For MARCView support is a non-issue -- it is so reliable that we have had only three support requests in 16 years. Even so, we will support the current release (3.12) for at least two years after your purchase. (Support for earlier releases has expired.) If you have a MARCView site license, the download file is no longer on our website but on our fulfillment service. Please email if you need to re-download. For MARConvert, support will be provided for five years after the initial delivery. All support is free. We thank all our clients for their business and suggestions over the years. Sixteen years is a long run! We will continue to provide ways to search and view MARC files through our MWeb Universal product.

MWeb Universal 2.0 supports federated searching of MARC21 records in bibliographic and authority formats and MARC-8 and UTF-8 encodings -- all at once. No need to convert or export; the files are searched in their native format.

In addition, you can search other kinds of databases at the same time as the MARC files. The MARC files and databases can be on multiple Windows servers anywhere. Databases are searched on their existing servers -- ideal for consortia because it avoids having to send files to a common point.

MWeb Universal is a web application, so searches can be performed anywhere there is an Internet connection.

Please see the MWeb Universal home page for more information.

Current release: 3.12.2 (September 19, 2008)

Bug fixes

1. Searching fields 010-099 with a subfield code returned "found but cannot highlight" if the subfield did not exist.

2. Hexview data was cut off for some fonts.

If you have purchased version 3.12, and have either of these problems, email us for a free upgrade.

MARCView is the easiest way to view, search, and print ANSI/ISO standard MARC records, UNIMARC records, and MARCXML records. It will also handle many files that are not strictly MARC. (It cannot be used to edit MARC records.)

There is no limit to the number of records in a file (the largest file we know has been used with MARCView is 1.6 million records). The file size is limited to 2 gigabytes (2,147,483,647 bytes).

Handles records up to the MARC limit of 99,999 bytes and fields up to the MARC limit of 9,999 bytes.

MARCView does not modify your files in any way.

Display and Navigation Features

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• Reads MARC21 records with MARC-8, UTF-8, or Latin-1 encoding.
• Reads MARCXML records with UTF-8 encoding.
• Reads UNIMARC records.
• Displays special characters and diacriticals correctly if there are corresponding Latin-1 characters.
• For MARC21 files, reads Leader byte 09, which indicates whether the record is in MARC-8 or UTF-8. (This allows for files of mixed MARC-8 and UTF-8 records.)
• Scrollable Navigation Grid in left pane. Selected record is shown in right pane. You decide what fields and subfields to show in the Navigation Grid.
• Panes and columns are resizable by dragging.
• Prints any record the same way it appears on the screen. Prints a single record, a range of records, or the entire file.
• Displayed record (or portion) may be copied and pasted into another application.
• Display font is user-selectable.

Searching

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• Search for any term, including terms with diacriticals.
• Search for data in specific fields and subfields.
• Search for the presence of specific tags and subfield codes.
• Search on indicator values.
• Tags may include the "x" wildcard character.
• Search Leader or specific Leader bytes.
• Terms found in search are highlighted.

Display the MARC Record in Native Format

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• By clicking a button, you can view and print the original MARC record in hexadecimal and text view (works for all formats: MARC21, MARCXML, UNIMARC).
• Color coded to make it easier to read. If you double-click on a MARC21 or UNIMARC directory entry, the corresponding field is highlighted too; double-clicking on a field highlights the directory entry too.
• By changing the width of the Hexview window, you can cause the record to wrap according to your needs.
• MARCXML records are displayed in color-coded XML format.
• A separate Hexview window is opened for each record, so you can compare several records in their native format.

Statistics

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• Record- and field-level statistics on the MARC file (MARC21, UNIMARC, and MARCXML). (Enlarge the image to see what statistics are reported.)
• Statistics can be printed.

Customization

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• Settings let you customize MARCView.
• Records can include non-numeric tags (e.g. RLIN acquisitions fields).
• Separate settings for bibliographic and authority files, and for UNIMARC files.

Other Features

• MARCView is guaranteed to read any file of MARC21, UNIMARC, or MARCXML bibliographic or authority records, in MARC-8, UTF-8, or Latin-1 -- or we fix it free, except files over 2 GB. (Our record is perfect since 1992 -- no file of true MARC records has been unreadable!)
• Shows complete fields with no truncation.
• Runs under Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista.
• Complete context-sensitive web-based Help and tooltips. Help buttons in MARCView go directly to the relevant page of the Help website if you are connected to the Internet.
• Free support by email.

If you need to convert records to or from MARC, or to another character set, please consider MARConvert™

Pricing and Ordering

To order MARCView via secure server, please go to our fulfillment service at Esellerate.net. For pricing and more ordering information, see Ordering Information.

30-day return if not satisfied.

Here are the major features of the last few releases. Please see the Order Form for upgrading.

Release 3.12 (current release)

• Printing of Hexview windows
• Searching on indicator values

Release 3.11 (January 11, 2006)

• MARC-8 escape sequences are displayed.
• Non-roman characters are displayed as green boxes instead of being dropped.
• Statistics report can be printed.
• Edit menu for copying records or parts of records

Release 3.10 (June 30, 2005)

• You may enter a value of 0 for the "Maximum records in Navigation Grid" in the Settings, if you don't want the grid built at all.
• You may use the keyboard to scroll the Navigation Grid.
• Supports double-clicking in Windows Explorer to open files with MARCView.
• "Send To" handles filenames with spaces.

Release 3.9 (August 29, 2004)

• Display, search, and print MARCXML files.
• Search up to 10 times faster in some cases.
• Saves the list of the last 9 files viewed for one-click reopening.