| Title | Das Schweizer Buch = Le Livre suisse = Il Libro svizzero = Il Cudesch svizzer = The Swiss Book |
| Web site address | The Swiss Book. The National Bibliography |
| Start date | Began 1901 |
| Period covered | 1900 to date |
| Current size | About 815.000 (2001-2023) |
| Media covered | Printed and electronic books and serials, non-book materials, maps, and printed music |
| General selection criteria | Helvetica i.e. Swiss publishing output (commercial and non-commercial) published in print and/or electronic form in Switzerland and abroad, in accordance with the National Library’s acquisitions guidelines |
| Selection criteria for digital resources | All types of formats enabling long-term digital preservation |
| Exclusions policies applied | Resources in non-Latin alphabetical characters except Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew |
| Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control | Swiss National Library |
| Web site address of national bibliographic agency | Swiss National Library |
| Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography | – |
| Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies | All Resources (fortnightly): issues nos. 1-15 and 17-23 Musical scores (annual): issue no. 16 Doctoral dissertations (annual): issue no. 24 Special issue (annual): issue no. 25 |
| Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography | Data created in-house |
| Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements | – |
| Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme | – |
| Form of publication used for the national bibliography | The Swiss Book is accessible in the online catalogue Helveticat. Since 2007, the PDF versions of the Swiss Book are available as individual issues as well. Printed catalogue from 1901 to 2006 |
| Access options to national bibliographic metadata: | – |
| Online access options | Z39.50, SRU, OAI-PMH harvesting |
| Formats & media available for delivery of record sets from the national bibliography | MARC files (MARC 21, MARCXML, etc), Dublin Core, XML, CSV, MS Excel, etc, online download |
| Metadata enhancements offered via online services | Book covers, table of contents, links to full text |
| Web 2.0 services offered | – |
| Frequency of service updates | Fortnightly |
| Target audiences for services | Academic/public libraries, members of the public, researchers, book trade, etc. |
| Uses made of services offered | Acquisition/selection, derived cataloguing, understanding national publishing output |
| Pricing policy for national bibliographic services | Free of charge |
| Under what conditions may the metadata be re-used for other products? | Metadata are created under “Creative Commons Zero” terms |
| Metadata formats | MARC21, MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS |
| Cataloguing rules or code | RDA |
| Levels of description offered | Full |
| Subject standards | – |
| Classification | DDC |
| Subject heading scheme or thesaurus | GND |
| Name authority standards or Name authority file | GND |
| Is NBA a member of the Bibliography Section? | No |
| Date information submitted | 07.02.2024 |
| Information supplied by | Valentina Sebastiani, Swiss National Library |
| Contact email | [email protected] |