How to print lists from Koha's OPAC cart

How to use the OPAC cart in Koha

In the Koha OPAC, patrons can download lists of items to use for homework and research papers, to populate bibliographic management tools like Zotero and Endnote, or just to help track their personal reading goals.

For instance: a patron wants to research North American trees. They will search for "trees" and browse the results to find promising nonfiction titles.


Next, they can select the check boxes for the titles they want to use for their research project.


With those titles selected, they can add them to their cart.


When they navigate to the cart, they will see the four titles that were added. They will select the titles and choose to download them.


After clicking Download, they will be prompted to select the appropriate file type. The options are:

  1. RIS (Zotero, Evernote, others) - file formats compatible with Zotero (a free and open-source reference management software), Evernote (an application software designed for note taking, organizing, task lists, and archiving) and other bibliographic management tools.
  2. BibTeX - a reference management software for formatting lists of references.
  3. ISBD - a bibliographic description standard, human-readable format, for use in a bibliography or a library catalog.
  4. MARC - a bibliographic description standard for machines for use in a bibliography or a library catalog.


With my file type selected, they will click the Go button to launch the download.


With the file downloaded, they can open it with their bibliographic management tool, or simply read it as a text file. All of this can be done without signing into Koha. If they do sign into Koha, they can create lists to accompany research projects. These lists can be added to throughout the project and can be download in just the same way.

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