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Book Format (KEV)

The KEV serialization for books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and reports — the canonical OpenURL format identifier for non-serial monographic content.

The Book KEV format covers "a single document published at one time": books, chapters, conference proceedings and papers in them, reports and general documents. Its identifier is info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book.

Format identifier

rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book

Keys

Key	Meaning (from the Registry matrix)	Example
`rft.genre`	`book`, `bookitem`, `conference`, `proceeding`, `report`, `document`, `unknown`	bookitem
`rft.btitle`	Title of the book	Handbook of Knowledge Representation
`rft.atitle`	Chapter title, when distinct	Description Logics
`rft.title`	Book title, kept for 0.1 compatibility; prefer `btitle`	—
`rft.aulast`, `rft.aufirst`, `rft.auinit`, `rft.auinit1`, `rft.auinitm`, `rft.ausuffix`	First author's name parts	Baader / Franz
`rft.au`	Full name of one author; repeatable	Horrocks, Ian
`rft.aucorp`	Corporate author	Mellon Foundation
`rft.place`	Place of publication	Amsterdam
`rft.pub`	Publisher	Elsevier
`rft.date`	Date of publication (assumed to be a year)	2008
`rft.edition`	Edition statement	2nd ed.
`rft.tpages`	Total pages	392
`rft.series`	Series title	Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
`rft.spage`, `rft.epage`	Start and end page of a part of the book	135 / 179
`rft.pages`	Page range or unstructured pagination	135-179
`rft.issn`	ISSN, usually of the series	1574-6526
`rft.isbn`	ISBN	9780444522115
`rft.bici`	Book Item and Component Identifier	—

Genres

book: A publication complete in one part or a finite number of parts, often with an ISBN.
bookitem: A defined section of a book, usually with its own title or number: a chapter.
conference: A publication bundling the proceedings of a conference.
proceeding: A single conference paper published in a conference publication.
report: A report or technical report issued by an organisation, agency or government body.
document: A general document, when the data do not allow anything more specific.
unknown: Genre unknown.

Books vs. chapters

Whole book: rft.genre=book, title in rft.btitle.
Chapter: rft.genre=bookitem, book title in rft.btitle, chapter title in rft.atitle, plus start and end pages.
Paper in a proceedings volume: rft.genre=proceeding, proceedings title in rft.btitle, paper title in rft.atitle.

The format has no editor key. For an edited volume, the authors in aulast/au are the chapter's authors.

Worked example: a book chapter

url_ver=Z39.88-2004
&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book
&rft.genre=bookitem
&rft.btitle=Handbook+of+Knowledge+Representation
&rft.atitle=Description+Logics
&rft.aulast=Baader
&rft.aufirst=Franz
&rft.au=Horrocks%2C+Ian
&rft.au=Sattler%2C+Ulrike
&rft.pub=Elsevier
&rft.place=Amsterdam
&rft.date=2008
&rft.series=Foundations+of+Artificial+Intelligence
&rft.spage=135
&rft.epage=179
&rft.isbn=9780444522115
&rft_id=info:doi/10.1016/S1574-6526(07)03003-9
&rfr_id=info:sid/example.com:database

See Chapter in an Edited Book for the field-by-field explanation.

Format identifier

Keys

Genres

Books vs. chapters

Worked example: a book chapter

Sources