The users, mainly researchers and students, only need to have a PC with a web browser. To present electronic documents it may be necessary to have other programs as well, for example an Adobe Acrobat Reader. In addition it is possible to follow links from many of these databases to the electronic version of the document, if their institution subscribes to such a service. The next version of the system, which is being planned, will have a web based interface for all services. The logical structure of the system will be revised and the presentation will be new both for the internal users at the libraries and for the end users.
All equipment is monitored using Tivoli as management tool.
In these we have especially worked with standardization of metadata and standard protocols for searching between heterogeneous systems.