TitleBibliografia Brasileira
Web site addresshttps://www.gov.br/bn/pt-br
Start dateBegan 1983
Period covered1918 – To date
Current sizeCa. 726.000
Media coveredDigital, audio and printed books, printed serials, maps, printed and digital music.
General selection criteriaIncludes material received by legal deposit.
Selection criteria for digital resourcesResource must be fomatted in a media (CD-ROM, DVD)
Exclusions policies appliedMotion pictures, softwares, ephemera, dissertations and thesis, periodical articles
Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic controlSingle national library, NBA.
Web site address of national bibliographic agencyhttps://acervo.bn.gov.br/sophia_web
Co-operative structures or  relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography Technical supervision of the ISBN National Agency until February 28, 2020.
Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographiesA single national bibliography covers all publications.
Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliographyIn-house data created, subject headings and authority files based on LC subject
headings and authorities.
Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangementsOnly materials received by legal deposit are included in national bibliography (identified by the tag 595 filled with the publication date of the work – from 2023), but the bibliographic database also includes material received by donation and
exchange. All categories of materials are listed together.
Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programmeThere is no Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme co-ordinated by the NBA.
Form of publication
used for the national
bibliography
The National Bibliography is only available through access to the general
catalogue.
Access options to national bibliographic metadataWeb catalogue
Online access optionsWeb catalogue
Formats & media
available for delivery of
record sets from the national bibliography
MARC21
Metadata
enhancements offered
via online services
None
Web 2.0 services
offered
None
Frequency of service
updates
Daily
Target audiences for
services
Mostly academic, public, special, and national libraries, researchers, publishers,
etc.
Uses made of services
offered
None
Pricing policy for
national bibliographic
services
Access to the National Bibliography is free.
Under what conditions
may the metadata be
re-used for other
products?
There are no restrictions to copy metadata from web database.
Cataloguing codeAACR2r
Levels of description offeredAACR2r level 3
Subject standardsLCSH
ClassificationDCC
Subject heading scheme or thesaurusLCSH
Name authority standards or Name authority fileLCDA
Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC?Our subscription currently includes the following Sections: 01, 13, 18, 19.
Date information submittedDate form was completed.
Information supplied byThaís Sant’Anna, Bibliographic Services Coordinator
Fundação Biblioteca Nacional
Av. Rio Branco, 219 – 3. andar
22040-008 Rio de Janeiro/RJ
Contact email[email protected]