Biblioscape allows a single database to be shared by people working on any computer with an Internet connection (or a local area network connection -- LAN -- to the computer with the database). It comes with a database server, BiblioRemote, that the user installs on the computer with the database. Anyone using Biblioscape can then be given full or limited access to that database, via the server.
This provides an alternative to BiblioWeb as a way of accessing a Biblioscape database remotely, and it is provided free with all versions of Biblioscape except Lite. Not only does it allow groups of users to use a single database from anywhere in the world, but it allows a single user who works from more than one location to use Biblioscape without having to carry the database with them.
To use BiblioRemote, users on remote computers launch Biblioscape on their own computers. Instead of opening a database on their computer, they open a small file which has all the necessary identifying information to locate the BiblioRemote server on their LAN or the Internet. Authentication (i.e. user name and password) can either be embedded in the small file or asked for each time the user opens a connection to the remote database.
Once the connection to the remote database is opened, Biblioscape behaves almost exactly as it would if the database were on the local computer. The main difference is that it responds somewhat more slowly, because the data it is displaying has to be transferred over the LAN or the Internet. The faster the connection, the less noticeable the lags.