Im Rahmen der Open-Access-Bewegung haben Bibliotheken begonnen, die (Meta-)Daten aus Bibliothekskatalogen der Allgemeinheit zur Verfügung zu stellen. Das BSZ stellt mit Zustimmung der beteiligten Bibliotheken in Zukunft auch Katalogdaten aus dem Südwestdeutschen Bibliotheksverbund bereit.
The Bibliographic Knowledge Network (BKN or BibKN) is a loose coalition of partners funded by the NSF Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Program. The mission is to build free tools and applications for researchers to distill, normalize, reconcile, publish, and analyze large open bibliographic datasets, and to develop a network of websites and webservices participating in this activity.
A project being undertaken by Curtis+Cartwright with JISC funding in 2009, exploring the legal issues associated with the sharing and reuse of library catalogue records.
You can use this website to clarify and advance your understanding of what you are entitled to do with the bibliographic records which you hold within your institutional library catalogue.