TitleOesterreichische Bibliografie
Web site addresshttps://www.onb.ac.at/bibliothek/recherche-und-suchtipps/oesterreichische-bibliografie
Start datebegan 1946
Period covered1945 to date
Current size494.484 (from 2003 -)
Media covered– Works published and printed in Austria
– Austriaca, i.e. works about Austria published abroad, (translated) works from Austrian authors published abroad
General selection criteriaDigital and printed books and serials, theses, maps and printed music
Selection criteria for digital resourcesOffline publications, continuing online resources that allow a digital long term preservation
Exclusions policies appliedSchool text books, computer games and software, music recordings, movies and broadcasting, websites
Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic controlAustrian National Library
Web site address of national bibliographic agencyhttp://www.onb.ac.at/
Co-operative structures or  relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography
Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographiesSeries A covers all publications (monthly) except:
Series A, supplement Musica practica covers musical prints (yearly, retrospectively)
Series A, supplement Karten covers maps (yearly, retrospectively)
Series B covers theses (continuously, available as database dump)
Series C covers Austriaca (continuously, available as database dump)
Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliographyData created in-house
Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangementsThe publications included in the series A series are collected in accordance with the law on legal deposit.
Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme
Form of publication used for the national bibliographySince 2003 PDF and HTML-formats only
Access options to national bibliographic metadataWeb catalogue
Online access optionsSince 2003 PDF and HTML-formats only
Formats & media available for delivery of record sets from the national bibliographyMARC files (MARCXML), CSV
Metadata enhancements offered via online servicesBook jackets/covers in the web-catalogue. Table of contents, abstracts and summaries (provided by publishers)
Web 2.0 services offered
Frequency of service updatesContinuously updated
Target audiences for servicesLibraries, booksellers, researchers, general public
Uses made of  services offered Reference queries, acquisition/selection, derived cataloguing, understanding national publishing output
Pricing policy for national bibliographic servicesOn a free basis
Under what conditions may the metadata be re-used for other products?Limited metadata export for research purposes. Commercial re-use is licensed by The Austrian Library Network and Service Ltd (OBVSG)
Metadata formats MARC21, MARC21/XML, RDF/XML
Cataloguing codeRDA
Levels of description offeredFull
Subject standardsSWD, BK, RVK, DDC
ClassificationDDC (100 divisions), RVK
Subject heading scheme or thesaurusGND
Name authority standards or Name authority fileGND
Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC?Not yet
Date information submitted10/11/2023
Information supplied byWolf-Dieter LANG, Austrian National Library
Contact email[email protected]