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# Getting started with Librario

Four steps from signing up to inviting your team.

Have you been invited? Then your account is already set up and your sign-in details are in the welcome email. Skip to step 3, or go straight to the [library search](/en/docs/grundlagen/publikationen-durchsuchen).

If you have questions, contact our [support team](mailto:support@librario.de?subject=Librario%20support%20request&body=Dear%20Sir%20or%20Madam%2C%0A%0AI%20need%20help%20using%20Librario.%0A%0AAccount%20e-mail%20address%3A%0AAffected%20page%20%28URL%29%3A%0ARequest%20ID%20%28if%20an%20error%20page%20was%20shown%29%3A%0A%0AWhat%20is%20the%20issue%3F%20What%20did%20you%20expect%2C%20and%20what%20happened%20instead%3F%0A%0A%0AI%20will%20attach%20a%20screenshot%20or%20screen%20recording%20where%20possible.%0A%0AKind%20regards%0A); we usually reply within one business day.

## Step 1: Sign up for Librario

Want to use Librario in your organisation? [Try Librario free for 14 days](/en/preise), no credit card needed.

## Step 2: Import publications

The first important step is adding your specialist literature.
You can add publications in three ways:

- by identifier (ISBN, DOI, PMID or a standard number such as EN 1992-1-1), also by scanning a barcode
- by uploading PDF files
- manually

For uploaded PDFs, Librario reads the metadata from the file and looks up the DOI or ISBN online.

![Screenshot of the "Import Publications" page in Librario. On the left, the options "Import PDF Files", "Import by Identifier" (ISBN, DOI, PMID, standard) and "Create Publication Manually". On the right, the list of publication imports, still empty.](/de/docs/erste-schritte/schritt-2.webp)
_The page for importing publications.
Screenshot of the German interface._


[Learn how to catalogue publications](/en/docs/bibliothekswesen/publikationen-verwalten)


## Step 3: Get to know search

After the import, you search titles, metadata and the full text of uploaded PDFs from one search field.

![Screenshot of the "Publications" page in Librario. At the top, a search field with the options "Search full text" and "Limit search to my favorites". Below it, a note that there are no publications yet. On the left, the "Files" filter for showing publications with or without files.](/de/docs/erste-schritte/schritt-3.webp)
_The search page before the first publication import.
Screenshot of the German interface._


[Get to know the library search](/en/docs/grundlagen/publikationen-durchsuchen)


## Step 4: Invite your team

Invite your users.
Librario sends each person a welcome email, and from then on everyone searches the same holdings.

![Screenshot of the "Users" page in Librario. A table with the columns Name, Roles, Employee number and Email. Above it, a search field for users and the blue "Add new user" button.](/de/docs/erste-schritte/schritt-4.webp)
_User management, where you invite more users.
Screenshot of the German interface._


[Get to know user management](/en/docs/administration/benutzerverwaltung)