Brazil Bibliography
Title | Bibliografia Brasileira – supersedes: Boletim Bibliográfico da Biblioteca Nacional |
Web site address | https://www.bn.gov.br |
Start date | Began 1983 |
Period covered | 1918 – To date |
Current size | Ca. 526.000 |
Media covered | Digital, audio and printed books, printed serials, maps, printed and digital music |
General selection criteria | Includes material received by legal deposit. |
Selection criteria for digital resources | Resource must be fomatted in a media (CD-Rom, DVD) |
Exclusions policies applied | Motion pictures, softwares, ephemera, dissertations and thesis, periodical articles |
Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control | Single national library, NBA. |
Web site address of national bibliographic agency | http://www.bn.br/ |
Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography | Technical supervision of the ISBN National Agency. |
Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies | The catalogs are separated by format (monographies, periodicals, iconography, etc.) |
Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography | In-house data created, subject headings and authority files based on LC subject headings and authorities, |
Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements | Only materials received by legal deposit are included in national bibliography (identified by the tag 595 filled with the date of inclusion), but the bibliographic database also includes material received by donation and exchange. All categories of materials are listed together. |
Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme | There is no Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme co-ordinated by the NBA |
Media & format options | Free copy of database records from the web. Databases exports files in MARC, XML, HTML, Excel and MicroISIS (only for Electronic Libraries Consortium members). |
Access options to national bibliographic metadata | Web catalogue, Z39.5 |
Metadata enhancements offered via online services | None |
Web 2.0 services offered | None |
Frequency of service updates | Daily |
Target audiences for services | Mostly academic and public libraries. |
Uses made of services offered | None |
Pricing policy for national bibliographic services | Private libraries that join the Electronic Libraries Consortium pay a US$ 150 monthly fee to import records for public Institutions there are no fees. |
Availability of metadata for re-use | There are no restrictions to copy metadata from web database. |
Metadata formats | MARC21 |
Cataloguing code | AACR2 |
Levels of description offered | AACR2 level 3 |
Subject standards | LCSH |
Name authority standards | LCAD |
Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC? | Yes |
Date information submitted | Date form was completed. |
Information supplied by |
Luciana Grings, Bibliographic Services Coordinator Fundação Biblioteca Nacional Av. Rio Branco, 219 – 3. andar 22040-008 Rio de Janeiro/RJ |