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Polish National Library’s databases

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Content: The National Library provides access to it’s databases, that create the Polish National Bibliography:

National bibliographies and special bibliographies

  • bibliographies of Polish books (from 1976-)
    They consist of:
    • Polish underground books (1976-1989)
    • Index to Gebethner and Wolff‘s "Bibliographic Review" (for years 1905-1914, 1923-1926)
    • Polish Bibliography 1901-1939
  • bibliographies of Polish periodicals (from 1958)
    They consist of:
    • bibliography of periodicals, new, suspended and changing the title
    • bibliography of serials
    • bibliography of independent serials
  • bibliography of electronic documents (from 2001)
    database consists of bibliographic descriptions of the electronic documents in book format as well as of electronic documents in serial format, published in Poland.

  • bibliological bibliographies
    database registers bibliographic lists, bibliographic reviews, notifications of the state of research (if they contain bibliographic information), published in Poland as well as abroad, if the author or thematic scope is related to the Poland.

  • bibliography of audio documents (from 1990)

  • bibliography of cartographic documents (from 2002)
    database registers all types of cartographic documents (maps, atlases, globes) from 2002, basing on obligatory copies delivered to the National Library.

Via web pages of the National Library are also available:
  • special bibliographies,
  • central catalogs,
  • address databases.
Indices of:
  • authors,
  • titles,
  • words from the titles,
  • topics,
  • subject headings,
  • book series,
  • publishers,
  • years of publications.

Via the National Library’s web page there is also access to FIDKAR multi-search engine

Access: without limitations in Internet.