Scandinavian Catalogs & Bibliographies
The following is a selected list of online catalog sites for certain countries. For each library the link is to a web page close to the actual connection to the catalog, and not necessarily to the main page for the library. For additional catalogs and other countries not listed below, see the Gateway sites.
| Scandinavia | United States | Gateway sites |
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Scandinavian Countries
Denmark
Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library), Copenhagen
REX, the catalog of the Royal Library and associated libraries at the University of Copenhagen, is a web-based catalog using the ALEPH library system. May also be accessed through the Royal Library's English-language page.
Iceland
University and National Library
Norway
BIBSYS (also available: English interface)
BIBSYS is a searchable database of all Norwegian university libraries, the National Library in Oslo, and several research libraries (more than 60 libraries in all). It is easy to search but somewhat hard to determine which library holds the title.
Sweden
LIBRIS is an excellent union catalog that allows searching of titles in more than 160 Swedish libraries. An added plus for literary studies is the automatic linking to book reviews, if available.
Kunglige Bibliotek (KB) (also available: English interface)
REGINA is the new web-based catalog of the Royal Library and has all material added to the library's collection since 1976 plus parts of the older collection. An English-language interface is also available.
United States
Officially a research collection for Congress, the Library of Congress is generally considered to be the national library of the United States. Its website provides a choice of interfaces for searching the online catalog.
WorldCat: OCLC Online Union Catalog
WorldCat is the extensive searchable bibliographic database produced by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in conjunction with cooperating libraries.
Gateway Sites
Part of the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, Libweb has a geographically arranged list of links to libraries throughout the U.S. and in over 70 countries world-wide.
This portal enables users to search the following digitized collections online: British Library integrated catalogue, Biblioteca Nacional (Portugal), BN-OPALE PLUS (France), Online-Katalog Der Deutschen Bibliothek, HELKA, SBN OPAC, General Catalogue Koninklijke Bibliotheek, HELVETICAT, National Library Catalogue (KatNUK), Croatian National Bibliographies of Books: 1990-2003, and Serbian Union Catalogue COBIB.SR. It also allows searching of the indexes of the following collections: Biblioteca Nacional, Colecção da Biblioteca Nacional Digital, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, ARSBNI 1, ARSBNI 2, Bertini, Europe, Manoscritti in Rete, Narodna in univerzitetna knjinica (Ljubljana, Slovenia), The Collection of rare audio records, Narodna Biblioteka Srbije, Serbian Children's Digital Library, and DOISerbia.
