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IESR SRU/W Access

SRU/W Access Details

The basic access details for the IESR SRU/W service are as follows:

Note that a request is interpreted as SOAP (i.e. SRW) if it contains 'Content-type: text/xml' or 'Content-type: application/soap+xml' in its HTTP header.

Request Parameters Supported

Parameter Value Requirement
operation searchRetrieve; explain Mandatory
version 1.2 (or 1.1) Mandatory
query CQL query: see IESR CQL Context Set Mandatory
startRecord (Default: 1) Optional (searchRetrieve only)
maximumRecords (Default: 25) Optional (searchRetrieve only)
recordPacking xml (default) or string Optional
recordSchema iesr; http://iesr.ac.uk/schemas/xsd/iesr.xsd; dc; info:srw/schema/1/dc-v1.1 (default is iesr) Optional (searchRetrieve only)

SearchRetrieve Response Parameters Supported

Parameter Value Requirement
version 1.2 Mandatory
numberOfRecords   Mandatory
records   Unless numberOfRecords=0
nextRecordPosition   If there are more records
diagnostics According to the SRU Specification If there are errors

Examples

Some SRU examples and SRW examples are available.