Data usage

For over ten years, the tables of contents of new acquisitions by the Eastern Europe Collection of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek have been digitised and made available in pdf format as supplements to the catalogue. Since 2016, person and place indexes as well as bibliographies have also been scanned. You can integrate these items (20,000 as of May 2018) into your own catalogue via the Bavarian Library Network or your local library network.

Do you lack data on Eastern and Southeastern Europe for a humanities or social science portal? We can assist you with our data. Take a look at our regional and specialist profile and contact us if you are interested.

osmikon country and subject profile

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek owns over 80,000 titles related to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, which are freely accessible digitally in Open Access. You are welcome to integrate them into your reference tools.

Over 20,000 Internet resources have been developed in OstNet to date. You can use these data via the Academic Link-Share library network.

Academic LinkShare (ALS)

A large part of the bibliographic data of osmikon is available as Linked Open Data. The data can be accessed via the B3Kat, the joint catalogue of the Bavarian Library Network (BVB) and the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV).

Of course, you can also use metadata from the format and subject indexing via the associations and thus facilitate work on your library.

B3Kat LinkedOpenData Service