Catalogues of the Austrian National Library

Main catalogues (books, periodicals, newspapers, series, microforms, AV media)
Free access holdings (works that can be used in the reading rooms)
Special catalogues (Ariadne – literature specific to women – electronic periodicals)
Department catalogues (objects in collections, e.g., pictures, manuscripts, music items, etc.)

Printed works publishes since 1501
Academic papers (diplom theses to 2007)
Women-specific articles, essays from collections, festschrifts, conference proceedings
special holdings (incunabula, maps, globes, broad-sheets, posters, sheet music, sound recording media)
Digital resources

Ariadne: Recording of articles from compilations, periodicals from, i.a., women’s and gender research, partially with abstracts
Electronic periodicals of the Austrian National Library: A rapid, structured, and uniform way of accessing scholarly periodicals in their full text.

Free access holdings in reading room 1 (main reading room): Reference works arranged in reading room 1 which can be used immediately in the reading room without being ordered.
Free access materials arranged in reading room 4 (large format reading room): Reference works kept in reading room 4 that can be used immediately in the reading room without being ordered.
Free access holdings in the Picture Archives: Holdings of the technical literature in the Picture Archives.

Research Department
Josefsplatz 1
1015 Vienna
Tel.: (+43 1) 534 10-444
Fax: (+43 1) 534 10-437

You must order works you wish to use, so that they can be prepared for you.
Exception: free access holdings.

last update 8/3/2012