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NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Dutch national bibliography consists of three parts:

1. Short-Title Catalogue, Netherlands

The Short Title Catalogue Netherlands is the Dutch retrospective bibliography for the period 1540-1800; also included are concise descriptions of Dutch (post-)incunabula.
The STCN-database contains more than 190,000 titles and over 500,000 copies of books published in the Netherlands (irrespective of the language) and of books in Dutch published abroad (with the exception of Belgium). The STCN has been compiled by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, based on important Dutch and foreign collections, including those of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek itself, the University Libraries of Amsterdam, Leiden, Utrecht, the Vrije Universiteit, Delft and Groningen, the British Library and the University of London Library, the City Libraries of Haarlem and Deventer, the The Hague City Archive, the Alkmaar Regional Archive et cetera. The STCN has been completed in July 2009. The freely available database offers scientists, students and other interested persons many advanced search options.
Go to STCN

2. Dutch bibliography 1801-1831
Available in the Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus (NCC). The NCC contains the bibliographical data and locations of around 10 million books and 460,000 magazines in more than 400 libraries in the Netherlands. In order to be able to order books or photocopies of articles in journals or magazines, an ILL-account is required.
Go to NCC (WWW-version)

3. Brinkman's Cumulatieve Catalogus (1832-present)
Available in the Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus (NCC). The NCC contains the bibliographical data and locations of around 10 million books and 460,000 magazines in more than 400 libraries in the Netherlands. In order to be able to order books or photocopies of articles in journals or magazines, an ILL-account is required.
Go to NCC (WWW-version)

PICARTA

Picarta offers access to various kinds of material, such as books, magazines, articles, abstracts, letters, sheet music, multimedia, full text-files and Internet services. The references in Picarta are derived from various databases. On the PiCarta homepage, one or more source databases can be selected via 'search options'. PiCarta consists of, among other things:

  • Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus (NCC): bibliographical data and locations of around 10 million books and 460,000 magazines in more than 400 libraries in the Netherlands
  • Online Contents: tables of contents of c. 12,000 current magazines and journals
  • Catalogus Epistularum Neerlandicarum: 180,000 summarising descriptions of c. 800,000 letters from 1600 to the present
  • NetFirst: Internet resources, selected by OCLC

Users not in the KB-building require an ILL-account. An ILL-account is also required for the retrieval of certain documents in Picarta, or to create a search profile.
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SUB ROSA

Searchable online database for Dutch popular prose from the period 1550-1850. The database contains Over 28.000 titles, with information on book locations (both national and international), collation formulas, fingerprint pages and all necessary information on translations. All of this is supported by 48.000 photo's of title page, frontispiece and fingerprint pages.

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