Other catalogs
Metacatalogs and library networks
Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)
The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK) is a meta-catalog that indexes more than 100 million books and journals in library and book trade catalogs worldwide (as of September 2024).
The European Library
The European Library is a multilingual meta-catalog that enables simultaneous searches of the holdings of 48 European national libraries (as of September 2024).
Verbundkatalog östliches Europa (VOE)
With over 1,230,000 titles, the Eastern European Union Catalog (VOE) lists the holdings of more than 30 cultural and scientific institutions in Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic (as of July 2020).
NUKAT (Narodowy Uniwersalny Katalog Centralny)
NUKAT is a central catalog of over 170 Polish scientific libraries with approximately 5 million bibliographic units (as of December 2023).
KaRo (Katalog Rozproszony Bibliotek Polskich)
KaRo is a meta-catalog that searches 150 Polish library catalogs, the NUKAT central catalog, and the catalog of the Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych (FBC) (as of July 2018).
Europeana
With approximately 57 million objects – books, maps, images, films, 3D objects, and sound recordings – the meta catalog enables users to search the digital collections of over 2,000 cultural institutions from across Europe (as of September 2024).
FBC (Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych)
The database contains more than 8 million digitized items from over 150 Polish cultural and scientific institutions. It is part of Europeana (as of September 2024).
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
The German Digital Library centrally brings together over 21 million cultural objects from around 4,800 cultural and knowledge institutions that present their digital collections. The DDB is also Germany's contribution to the European digital platform Europeana (as of September 2024).
Osmikon
is the research portal for Eastern, Central, and Southeastern Europe. It replaced the Virtual Library of Eastern Europe (ViFaOst) in June 2018.
National Libraries
German National Library
Austrian National Library / ÖNB Digital
Polish National Library / Polona
Swiss National Library / swisscovery
National Library of the Czech Republic / Kramerius
Lithuanian Martynas Mažvydas National Library / iBiblioteka
Libraries for Polish and Eastern European Studies
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Osteuropaabteilung
Deutsches Polen-Institut
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO)
Herder-Institut Marburg
Martin-Opitz-Bibliothek
Schweizerische Osteuropabibliothek
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Osteuropa-Abteilung
Nordost-Institut
Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS)
Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (BKGE)
Polish Libraries
Library of the Center for Historical Research Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Library of the Scientific Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna
University Library Warsaw
Jagiellonian Library
Sejm Library
Library of the Jewish Historical Institute
Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich - Zentrum für Oststudien
Południowo-Wschodni Instutut Naukowy
Instytut Zachodni - West Institut
Bibliothek des Collegiums Polonicum
