Bibliographic database

Bibliographic databases are bibliographic databases on a specific subject or topic and contain bibliographic information such as author, title and year of publication of a work, sometimes a short annotation. They are also referred to as " reference database ".

In the course of catalog enrichment (English catalog enrichment ) are partly also added tables of contents or title images. In contrast to full-text databases of the text of the work is not available in the database. Library catalogs and book trade catalogs, such as the list of available books, mostly bibliographic databases, but recorded a stock of various topics.

Known bibliographic databases MEDLINE and VD 17 and the journal database, WorldCat and the German national bibliography. In the Digital Library not only bibliographic databases (including libraries ) can be queried using metasearch, but also full-text databases.