It searches a large number of catalogs of research libraries and consortia in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as important consortia and national library catalogs in other countries.
In order to be able to search many catalogs at the same time, the KVK team has created a CGI program, which initially reformulates the terms entered in the KVK search form for each of the target catalogs according to their requirements.
For each WWW search interface of the target catalogs, a structure description file is provided which allows entry into the CGI program.
The CGI program of the KVK then transfers the search queries in the KVK in the correct syntax to the correct fields of the target catalog.
Important elements of the hit list are the short titles of the hits and the URL links to the full title dis.