We would like to introduce to you the changes and improvements we have made:

Over 58 million publications

Our new database holds over 58 million publications from all corners of the world. That is more than 52 million on our Erasmus Amsterdam website ( https://www.erasmusbooks.nl) and more than 6 million on our Erasmus Paris website (https://www.erasmus.fr).

Until now our websites featured a comprehensive database for English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Italian language publications, but we now include recent Danish, Swedish and Norwegian publications as well.

The bibliographic quality of publications has also improved. When available, we now show more descriptive data, classifications (such as BIC, Dewey and Thema) and summaries (descriptions, table of contents and bibliographical notes).

Up-to-date technologies have dramatically improved speed throughout our website and will deliver you better search results, faster.

Quicksearch suggestions

Our Quicksearch input will now show suggestions as you type, making it easier to find what you are looking for. These suggestions can be filtered by Title, Author, Publisher, Keywords, Torrossa (our e-book platform) and NTS (Erasmus' curated selection). All from the Quicksearch input itself, available anywhere on the website.

Aftersearch filters

Our Aftersearch filters have expanded to now include the possibility to filter by:

• Availability (Available, Forthcoming, Out of print, etc...),
• Product type (Hardback, Paperback, Digital, etc...),
• Years of publication,
• Publisher,
• Series,
• Contributors,
• Countries of publication,
• Classification (List of available schemes)

All filters dynamically recalculate their totals, as you apply them. Allowing for complicated deep dives such as 'Forthcoming hardbacks from India with thema Architecture' or 'Available paperbacks from Spain by Pablo Picasso'.

Sorting by relevance

By default your search results will now be sorted by 'Relevance'. This relevance is based on our curated New Title Service selection, year of publication and on how many times your keywords occur in the bibliographical record and in which places.

It is of course always possible to change the sorting to alphabetically by title, author/editor, publisher or by ISBN or Publication date, ascending or descending:

We hope the new database will give you a better experience using our websites. If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to contact us at erasmus@erasmusbooks.nl