Catalogues of the Staatsbibliothek

Online catalogues StabiKat and StaBiKat classic

The online catalogue StabiKat  is a discovery system and allows users to search over 200 millions of journal articles, books, journals, databases and more available in print or online at the Staatsbibliothek. 

StabiKat displays records from the individual data sources where access to the medium (print/online) is possible.

National Licenses Articles

  • Source: https://kxp.k10plus.de/DB=1.55/
  • Scope: 71,743,140 records (as of 11/2024)
  • Percentage of online media: 100%
  • Content: Online articles from approximately 30 databases and nearly 18,000 journals, covering publications from around 1740 to 2010, across disciplines, languages, and publishers.
  • Special features: Includes searchable abstracts and descriptive keywords in various languages. Full-text search is not available.

SBB-Crossref

  • Source: https://www.crossref.org/
  • Scope: 64.357.130 records (as of 11/24)
  • Percentage of online media: 100%
  • Media type: 100%  articles
  • Content: A subset of the full source, covering publications from approximately 1665 to the present, interdisciplinary, and predominantly in English.
  • Special Features: Includes citations from OpenAlex, with some records offering searchable abstracts. Subject-based and full-text search is not available.

GBV Union Catalogue

  • Source: https://kxp.k10plus.de/DB=2.1
  • Scope: 24.371.070 records (as of 11/24)
  • Percentage of online media: 24%
  • Content:  Approximately 9 million printed books, 4 million e-books, 6 million printed articles, 2 million online articles, and various other special formats (maps, sheet music, manuscripts, etc.), covering all languages, subjects, and publication dates.
  • Special features: Some records can be searched thematically using keywords and a basic classification system. Additional information such as tables of contents or reviews is partly included. Some records feature citations from OpenAlex. This collection offers deeper indexing compared to others and links to additional resources like Wikipedia via GND authority data. 

Online Contents Article Database

  • Source: https://kxp.k10plus.de/DB=2.3
  • Scope: 18.168.517 records (as of 11/24)
  • Percentage of online media: 22%
  • Content:  14 million printed articles and 4 million online articles, covering publications from 1800 to the present, interdisciplinary with a focus on Western European languages.
  • Special features: Includes some keyword indexing and basic classification. Some records contain citations from OpenAlex.

JSTOR Digital Library

  • Source: https://www.jstor.org/
  • Scope: 13.888.499 records (as of 11/24)
  • Percentage of online media: 100%
  • Content:  Predominantly English-language publications spanning from 1600 to the present, interdisciplinary.
  • Special features: Does not include JSTOR images. Some records feature searchable abstracts, but full-text search is not available.

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

  • Source: https://www.doaj.org/
  • Scope: 10.079.655 records (as of 11/24)
  • Percentage of online media: 100%
  • Content: Open Access publications, interdisciplinary, predominantly English-language articles, with a focus on literature from 2000 onward.
  • Special features: Full-text search is not available. Keyword-based subject search is partially supported.

Springer

  • Source: https://link.springer.com/
  • Scope: 4.791.826 records (as of 11/24)
  • Percentage of online media: 100%
  • Content: Open Access publications, interdisciplinary with a focus on STEM fields, predominantly English-language articles, covering literature from 1853 onward.
  • Special features: Full-text search is not available. Subject search is partially supported.

Wiley

  • Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
  • Scope: 1.448.383 records (as of 11/24)
  • Percentage of Online media: 100%
  • Media type: 100% articles
  • Content: Open Access publications, interdisciplinary with a focus on medicine and STEM fields, predominantly English-language articles, covering literature from 1895 onward.
  • Special features: Full-text search is not available, and subject indexing is minimal (only partly with basic classification

 

The classic online catalogue StaBiKat classic will continue to be available until further notice. It can be reached via StabiKat  or directly. Readers can search by author, title, etc. and also carry out subject searches. Journal articles have not been included.

A part of the holdings of the special collections departments of the Staatsbibliothek can be found in specialist online catalogues.

Systematic Search

The Basic Classification (BK) is a simple scientific classification system with a flat hierarchy of 48 main classes and a total of around 2100 subclasses. When researching, it is particularly suitable for the subsequent narrowing down of search results to certain aspects of a subject area and for browsing in a class with similar subject matter. Only some of the media acquired between 1945 and 1999 have been systematically processed with the BK.

The reading room classification (only in german) assists you in thematic searches for volumes in the reference holdings of the general reading rooms of both houses, the Rare Books Reading Room and the Eastern European Reading Room. Important electronic resources are also assigned to these classification points.
The results are displayed in StaBiKat classic.

The Historical Classification Online offers a subject search for about 3 million books and periodical volumes of the Staatsbibliothek published between 1501 and 1955. It is possible to browse the systematic classification or to search with different search terms over more than 225,000 subject access points. There are direct links to bibliographic records in the online catalogue StaBiKat classic. The basis is the Old Subject Catalogue (Alter Realkatalog - ARK) - a subject catalog in volume form.
The results are displayed in StaBiKat classic.

Other reference systems for the holdings of the Staatsbibliothek

Qalamos Metadata and digitised copies of Oriental manuscript collections in Germany

see also Oriental Department / Search and Resources

A part of the library‘s special collection holdings is exclusively recorded in traditional print or card catalogues. The special departments provide information on their respective catalogues.