Regional, National, and International Catalogs
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The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library – Stabi) is the largest comprehensive academic library in Germany. It boasts more than 13 million holdings. Its special collections include occidental and oriental manuscripts, music autographs, literary remains, maps, and historical newspapers.
The Kooperative Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (Cooperative Library Network for Berlin and Brandenburg – KOBV) is a metasearch engine that allows users to search the holdings of all academic and public libraries located in Berlin and Brandenburg. Filters can be used to limit searches to specific libraries if required.
The German National Library collects, permanently archives, comprehensively documents, and bibliographically records all German and German-language publications since 1913 and makes them available to the public. This comprises over 49.5 million total holdings.
The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) is a metasearch engine that allows users to research multiple library and bookstore catalogs simultaneously. The list of results then provides a link to the full title as available in the respective catalog.
The German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) is one of the world’s largest databases for journals, newspapers, monographic series, and other serial publications from all countries. It comprises both print and electronic media. The ZDB contains more than 1.6 million bibliographic records and more than 12.9 million holdings.
WorldCat is the world’s largest library catalog. It provides access to approximately two billion bibliographic records and connects users with holdings and services at over 10,000 libraries around the globe.