Swedish National Bibliography

Title	The Swedish National Bibliography
Web site address	http://www.kb.se/english/find/bibliographies/national/
Start date	Began 1976
Period covered	For monographs 1976 to date, for music prints and maps from 1986, for magazines from 1900 to date.
Current size	585,000 records
Media covered	Printed books, periodicals, music scores and maps. Some electronic books and periodicals are covered as well.
General selection criteria	Includes the Swedish national output. Swedish material published around the world is generally included in the SUECANA-database.
Selection criteria for digital resources	Special agreements with some publishers. No full coverage. Maybe digital legal deposit from 2011.
Exclusions policies applied	Ephemera, computer games, audio-visual material, most electronic resources, newspapers.
Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control	Single national library.
Web site address of national bibliographic agency	http://www.kb.se
Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography	Cooperation with Bokrondellen, Sweden’s largest database for the book-trade.
Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies	Audio-visual material is recorded in Svensk mediedatabas, http://smdb.kb.se/
Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography	Data is created in-house, but also derived from records of other libraries. The National Bibliography is a part of the National Union Catalogue and not a real database of its own. Data put in the National Union Catalogue by others is also used by the National Bibliography.
Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements	The material included is received by the National Library under national deposit arrangements. We also receive a large amount of commercially available books before publication trough our arrangement with Bokrondellen, mentioned above.
Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme	No CIP programme exists.
Media & format options	HTML
Access options to national bibliographic metadata	Web catalogue, Z39.50, SRU, unAPI, Xsearch (supporting MARC-XML, Dublin Core, Json, RIS, MODS and RDF), OpenURL COinS
Metadata enhancements offered via online services
Web 2.0 services offered	Planned, but not yet offered
Frequency of service updates	Daily
Target audiences for services	Academic libraries, members of the public, book trade.
Uses made of services offered	Acqusition/selection, derived cataloguing, statistical enquiries about national output.
Pricing policy for national bibliographic services	Free basis.
Availability of metadata for re-use	No restrictions.
Metadata formats	MARC21
Cataloguing code	Slightly modified AACR2
Levels of description offered	Slightly modified AACR Levels 1 and 3.
Subject standards	Swedish Subject Headings (SAO) and SAB-classification. Starting in January of 2011 we will use DDC instead of SAB.
Name authority standards	NACO
Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC?	Yes, to the IFLA Standing Committee of the Bibliography Section. However no personal representative in the SC during the current period.

Bibliography, national bibliographies

Last update: 14 October 2010