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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 monographic publications: books, edited volumes, book chapters, conference proceedings, technical reports. Its identifier is info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book.
Format identifier
rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:bookDescriptor keys
| Key | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
rft.genre | Subtype: book, bookitem, conference, proceeding, report, document, unknown | book |
rft.btitle | Book title | The Principles of Mathematics |
rft.atitle | Chapter (or paper) title — used when genre is bookitem, proceeding, conference | On Reference |
rft.title | Generic title (alias for btitle in older 0.1-style traffic) | — |
rft.aulast | First author's surname | Russell |
rft.aufirst | First author's forename or initials | Bertrand |
rft.au | Additional author (repeatable) | Whitehead, A. N. |
rft.aucorp | Corporate author | — |
rft.isbn | ISBN | 9780486417134 |
rft.place | Place of publication | Cambridge |
rft.pub | Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
rft.edition | Edition | 2nd |
rft.tpages | Total pages | 564 |
rft.series | Series title | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
rft.date | Publication date | 1903 |
rft.spage | Start page (for chapters/items) | 23 |
rft.epage | End page (for chapters/items) | 56 |
rft.pages | Page range | 23-56 |
Books vs. chapters
For a whole book: set rft.genre=book and use rft.btitle as the title. Page descriptors are optional and usually omitted.
For a chapter in an edited book: set rft.genre=bookitem; use rft.btitle for the book title and rft.atitle for the chapter title; include start and end pages.
For a paper in conference proceedings: set rft.genre=proceeding (or conference); rft.btitle carries the proceedings title and rft.atitle the paper.
Worked example — a book chapter
ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book
&rft.genre=bookitem
&rft.btitle=Logic-Based+Knowledge+Representation
&rft.atitle=Description+Logics
&rft.aulast=Baader
&rft.aufirst=Franz
&rft.pub=MIT+Press
&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA
&rft.date=2010
&rft.spage=135
&rft.epage=178
&rft.isbn=9780262026789
&rfr_id=info:sid/example.com:database