Open-Source Now Available
You may now download the source code and documentation for MARCView and MARConvert, free to the community under the Apache 2.0 license.
We are working with an organization who wishes to sponsor the source code; this organization will be able to provide mechanisms such as a repository and listservs. We regret that we cannot provide these, but in the meantime, we offer the code and documentation.
Please see the documentation for the tools required to work with the code.
Please email any questions about the code and documentation to info@systemsplanning.com. We will do our best to help you.
Background:
After 16 years, we have decided to stop developing MARCView and MARConvert in order to focus on other projects.
You may continue to order MARCView from our ecommerce site. Of course it will keep working forever, so this change will not reduce its value. Please see the Order Page for prices and links.
We are no longer taking orders for MARConvert.
We will continue to honor our support policies:
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For MARCView support is a non-issue -- it is so reliable that we have had only three support requests in 16 years. Even so, we will support the current release (3.12) for at least two years after your purchase. (Support for earlier releases has expired.)
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If you have a MARCView site license, the download file is no longer on our website but on our fulfillment service. Please email if you need to re-download.
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For MARConvert, support will be provided for five years after the initial delivery.
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All support is free.
We thank all our clients for their business and suggestions over the years. Sixteen years is a long run!
MWeb Universal
We will continue to provide ways to search and view MARC files through our MWeb Universal product, which provides federated searching of records in bibliographic and authority formats and MARC-8 and UTF-8 encodings -- all at once.
In addition, you can search other kinds of databases at the same time as the MARC files. The MARC files and databases can be on multiple Windows servers anywhere. Databases are searched on their existing servers -- ideal for consortia because it avoids having to send files to a common point.
So far, it has been tested with these systems: SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Access, Foxpro, PastPerfect-Online, MARC21 bibliographic files, MARC21 authority files, and MWeb Enterprise Databases.
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