TitleThe Russian National Bibliography (Rossiyskaya Natsional’naya Bibliografiya)
Web site addresshttp://www.bookchamber.ru/
Start dateBegan 1907
Period covered1907 to date
Current sizeElectronic catalogs databank: more than 20 mln entries. Full digital archive of “Book annals” from 1907. All other “Annales” are in retroversion now. Databank of national bibliography is about 9 mln records for 01.01.2023.
Media coveredPrinted books and serials, articles in periodicals, audio, printed music, maps, offline and official publications, books for the blind and partially sighted.
General selection criteriaInclude Russian publishing products received by the Russian State Library and other federal depositories in accordance with the law on legal storage (books, brochures, magazines, newspapers and other periodicals, sheet music, maps, atlases, doctoral dissertations, reviews, publications on art, bibliographies). Alongside with each printed legal deposit the publisher must present its electronic master copy to depository from 01.01.2017.
Selection criteria for digital resourcesOnly offline documents
Exclusions policies appliedReports, grey literature, ephemera, private documents, editions by technology “printed demand” with the printing of single copies, movies.
Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic controlRossijskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka (Russian State Library), kompleks “Rossiyskaya Knizhnaya Palata” (The Russian Book Chamber Complex).
By Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 150-r of 26.01.2021, the functions of the Russian Book Chamber were transferred to the federal state budgetary institution “Russian State Library”.
Web site address of national bibliographic agencyhttps://www.rsl.ru/ru/rkp/
Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography Provision, instructions and consultations for ISBN, ISSN and ISMN numbers are the functions of the Russian Book Chamber complex of the Russian State Library. “Informregistr” is responsible for offline digital resources; the Russian Parliament Library is responsible for all official publications; the Russian National Library for Blind People is responsible for all materials for blind and partially sighted people; Russian State Library (Moscow) and National Library of Russia (St.-Petersburg) are responsible for national retrospective bibliography.
Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographiesThe created bibliographic information is reflected in the publications of the state bibliographic indexes. They are distributed by subscription. The main bibliographic indexes are “Book Annals”, “Annals of journal articles” and “Annals of newspaper articles”, “Annals of dissertations abstracts”, “Music Annals”, “Annals of Publications”, “Cartographic Annals”, “Annals of reviews, “Books of the Russian Federation”. “Bibliography of the Russian Bibliography”, as well as “Annals of periodicals and continuing publications. New, renamed and discontinued newspapers and magazines”. All aforementioned bibliographies have indexes by names, subject, geography, language etc.
Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliographyThe source for obtaining metadata is the bibliographic records created by the Russian Book Chamber, which, in turn, is a division of the Russian National Library.
Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangementsThe material is received by the Russian Book Chamber and other special federal depositories under legal deposit law.
The Russian State Library, in accordance with Federal Law No. 77-FZ of December 29, 1994 “On Mandatory Copies of Documents” as amended in 2022, is the recipient of mandatory copies of documents
Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programmeCIP programme is voluntary practiced in Russia since 1988, but it is hardly used by small and regional publishers.
Media & format options RUSMARC, MARC21, USMARC, UNIMARC. CCF, ONIX etc.
Access options to national bibliographic metadataWeb catalogue, Z39.50, FTP
Metadata enhancements offered via online servicesNot yet offered.
Web 2.0 services offeredYes.
Frequency of service updatesDepending on the part of type of bibliography (weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly).
Target audiences for servicesLibrarians, publishers, booksellers, authors, researchers, students, bibliographers, bibliophiles, members of the different professional associations.
Uses made of services offered Acquisition/selection, derived cataloguing and regional and thematic bibliographies.
Pricing policy for national bibliographic servicesRussian National Bibliography operates all online bases usually for free. In addition, it provides cost recovery for special services that involve further manual and time-costing labor.
Availability of metadata for re-useRussian National Bibliography metadata is released usually for free into the public domain (except for profit business).
Metadata formats MARC21
Cataloguing codeRossiyskie pravila katalogizatsii (Russian cataloguing rules)
Levels of description offeredISBD
Subject standardsUDC, BBK (Library and Bibliographic Classification), BLC (Bibliographic Library Code)
Name authority standardsRussian standards compatible with GARR
Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC?Yes, it is.
Date information submitted25/07/2023
Information supplied byMarina Neshcheret, leading researcher & Konstantin Sukhorukov, chief editor at the Russian State Library.