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)

All bibliographic data created by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek is stored in B3Kat, the joint catalogue of the Bavarian Library Network (BVB) and the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV). This metadata from formal and subject catalogueing can be retrieved via an OAI-PMH interface.

For example, you can use the following command to retrieve all metadata from OstDok that has been fed into B3Kat since 24.04.2023: bvbr.bib-bvb.de/aleph-cgi/oai/oai_opendata.pl

Please note that there are restrictions on set-specific harvesting with regard to resumption tokens and empty hit sets. Details can be found on this page: https://www.bib-bvb.de/web/b3kat/open-data (The above example only provides a hit set with the sixth ResumptionToken). The resumption tokens are appended to the following basic call bvbr.bib-bvb.de/aleph-cgi/oai/oai_opendata.pl= e.g. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/aleph-cgi/oai/oai_opendata.pl?verb=ListRecords&resumptionToken=202304240956446999999999999999OpenData:OAI-MARC21@@ostdok@@marc21

The following sets of metadata on titles on Eastern Europe can be retrieved via the corresponding selection indicator:

•     oe : selection indicator for all titles of the Bavarian State Library's Eastern Europe Collection
•     ostdok : selection indicator for all titles from the OstDok database
•     oeaufsaetze : selection indicator for all titles from ARTOS, database for articles and reviews on Eastern, Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe
•     bsb_ego_oe : Selection indicator for all titles from the Ego document platform on osmikon

Detailed information on harvesting via OA-PMH can be found on this page: https://www.bib-bvb.de/web/b3kat/open-data

All bibliographic data created by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek are stored in B3Kat, the joint catalogue of the Bavarian Library Network (BVB) and the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV), and can be re-used as Linked Open Data (LOD).

B3Kat LinkedOpenData Service