Japanese National Bibliography
| Title | The Japanese National Bibliography (JNB) |
| Web site address | http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/publication/jnbwl/jnb_top.html |
| Start date | began 1948 |
| Period covered | 1868 to date |
| Current size | 4 million |
| Media covered | Books, serials, materials for blinded persons, electronic publications, maps, audio-visual materials, etc. |
| General selection criteria | The Japanese National Bibliography (JNB) is the national bibliography of Japan. It lists and describes the materials newly published or distributed in Japan that are received by the National Diet Library under legal deposit as provided for in the National Diet Library Law. |
| Selection criteria for digital resources | The coverage of the JNB was widened to include electronic publications following the extension of legal deposit to this class of material in 2000. |
| Exclusions policies applied | Secret documents, ephemera. Motion pictures are also excluded for the duration. |
| Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control | The National Diet Library |
| Web site address of national bibliographic agency | See: http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/publication/about_jnbwl.html |
| Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography | The acquisition of the library materials by legal deposit is partially carried out through major publication wholesalers. |
| Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies | The JNB is a single integrated publication. However, JAPAN/MARC is distributed separately; JAPAN/MARC (M: Monographs), JAPAN/MARC (S: Serials). |
| Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography | Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce the JNB include: commercial MARC data, in-house created data, and derived catalogue data from a variety of sources. |
| Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements | Japanese publishers are obliged by the National Diet Library Law to send a copy of all new publications, to the National Diet Library.See: http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/aboutus/deposit.html |
| Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme | There is no CIP Programme in Japan. |
| Media & format options | The JNB is available in the following formats: *On annual subscription as a weekly JAPAN/MARC file, delivered on CD-R * As a HTML file “the Japanese National Bibliography weekly list” on the NDL website |
| Access options to national bibliographic metadata | There is no access option to JNB metadata. |
| Metadata enhancements offered via online services | There is no metadata enhancements offered via online services. |
| Web 2.0 services offered | There is no Web 2.0 services offered. |
| Frequency of service updates | * JAPAN/MARC(M) files are offered weekly * JAPAN/MARC(S) files are offered twice a year * JNB HTML lists are offered weekly |
| Target audiences for services | Academic, special and public libraries in Japan and overseas. Members of the public via online services. |
| Uses made of services offered | * Notification of publications for selection and acquisition activities * Reference queries * Deriving of high quality catalogue records for inclusion in local catalogues * Retrospective conversion using back-file data |
| Pricing policy for national bibliographic services | Cost recovery for JAPAN/MARC. Free for online access. |
| Availability of metadata for re-use | * National Diet Library records are supplied exclusively under license, whether they are obtained directly from the Library or indirectly from an accredited supplier * Organizations wishing to re-supply National Diet Library records, or make them available in commercial transactions, are invited to contact us to discuss their requirements. Licensing of National Diet Library records for redistribution is subject to the payment of an annual fee. |
| Metadata formats | JAPAN/MARC format, JAPAN/MARC format compatible with UNIMARC |
| Cataloguing code | NCR(Nippon Cataloging Rules) |
| Levels of description offered | NCR Level 2 |
| Subject standards | NDC(Nippon Decimal Classification), NDLC(National Diet Library Classification), NDLSH(National Diet Library Subject Headings) |
| Name authority standards | NDL’s Name Authority file |
| Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC? | Yes |
Last update: 10 February 2010
