TheZeitschriftendatenbank, orZDB (translated as:German Union Catalogue of Serials), is the centralbibliographical database for title and ownership records of ongoing collections in Germany and Austria, for example, fromtrade journals,magazines andnewspapers.[1] The ZDB holds records of almost all German scientific libraries and many other public libraries and is freely available on the Internet.[1] The journal database is managed by theStaatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB) in cooperation with theDeutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), the German National Library, which is responsible for the technical system support and further development.
The basic requirement for the inclusion of a title in the journal database is that it belongs to the genre of the continuous collective works likeperiodicals,serials orseries issued in several parts (booklets, volumes) and which are not limited in the duration of publication (such aslexica). The spectrum includes not only printed evidence (print media), but also titles fromelectronic journals andmicroforms.
The database records which periodicals are available in the individual participating libraries and allows searching for magazine titles. The so-called inventory data record provides information about which volumes are available in which library. In contrast, the ZDB does not list anyarticle title.[nb 1]
Due to its range of titles and inventory records, the ZDB is the backbone of theinterlibrary loan system in Germany for the aforementioned types of literature. In addition to the holdings of German libraries, it also lists those from Austria and (to a limited extent) other European countries. As one of the world's largest databases of its kind,[1] the ZDB comprises more than 1.9 million titles in alllanguages from 1500 up to the present day, and it contains over 17 million ownership records of around 3630 German and Austrian libraries for these titles.[1][2]
Since June 2014, most of themetadata has been under theCreative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0) license and is therefore released for reuse.[3]
In the 1970s, the formerGemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei (GKD) was created from the catalogue data of the ZDB. This was incorporated into theGemeinsame Normdatei (GND) in April 2012.
Die Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB) ist eine der weltweit größten Datenbanken für den Nachweis von Zeitschriften, Zeitungen, Schriftenreihen und anderen periodisch erscheinenden Veröffentlichungen aus allen Ländern, in allen Sprachen, ohne zeitliche Einschränkung, in gedruckter, elektronischer oder anderer Form. Die Teilnahme an der ZDB ist kostenlos und steht allen Bibliotheken und Institutionen offen. Aktuell bringen 3.700 Bibliotheken aller deutschen Bundesländer und aus Österreich ihre Zeitschriftentitel und die zugehörigen Besitznachweise in die ZDB ein.
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