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The Japanese National Bibliography (JNB)

The Japanese National Bibliography (JNB) comprises standard bibliographic data for Japanese publications acquired via the legal deposit system as well as Japanese publications and foreign publications in Japanese acquired through donation, purchase, or other means.

The JNB includes print publications and packaged digital publications such as CDs and DVDs published in Japan as well as foreign publications in Japanese. Cataloging is usually completed within one month of acquisition. More than 95% of the printed monographs available commercially in Japan are recorded.

Also included are numerous publications with limited public circulation from national and municipal governments.

Bibliographic data for online publications acquired by the National Diet Library (NDL) since July 1, 2013, is available from the page "全国書誌(電子書籍・電子雑誌編) (Japanese National Bibliography Records of e-Books and e-Periodicals)" (in Japanese). The NDL acquires domestic Japanese online publications.

Newly arrived (in-process) records become searchable in Web Japanese National Bibliography about four days after acquisition, not including materials in Asian languages and maps.

* The integration of the NDL Online and NDL Search web services on January 5, 2024 includes the termination or change of some of the Japanese National Bibliography services.
For more information, please see the following page.

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List of Japanese National Bibliography Services

Online Services Japanese National Bibliography Japanese National Bibliography Records of e-Books and e-Periodicals Newly arrived (in-process) records Formats
API via NDL Search *
details
API for search SRU Available Available Available DC-NDL (RDF), etc.
Open Search Available Available Available RSS2.0
API for harvest OAI-PMH Available Available Available DC-NDL (RDF), DC-NDL (Simple), SimpleDC (OAI-DC)
Web JNB
details
Downloading from the bibliography details screen Available - Available MARC, MARC tags, DC-NDL (RDF), JSON, TSV, Bibtex
from the search results list screen Available - Available MARC, MARC tags, DC-NDL (RDF), JSON, TSV, Bibtex
from the favorites screen ** Available - Available MARC, MARC tags, DC-NDL (RDF), JSON, TSV, Bibtex
JAPAN/MARC (weekly update) (in Japanese)
details
Available Not available - MARC 21 format
Web Japanese National Bibliography Records of e-Books and e-Periodicals
details
Downloading from the bibliography details screen - Available - TSV, DC-NDL (RDF), JSON, Bibtex
from the search results list screen - Available - TSV, DC-NDL (RDF), JSON, Bibtex
from the favorites screen ** - Available - TSV, DC-NDL (RDF), JSON, Bibtex
Japanese National Bibliography Records of e-Books and e-Periodicals (in Japanese)
details
- Available - TSV

* Downloading from the bibliography details screen, the search results list screen and the favorites screen is also available (including data other than national bibliographic data).
** The favorites screen is shared with NDL Search.

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JNB Services via Web Services

Web Japanese National Bibliography (Web JNB)

Web Japanese National Bibliography (in Japanese)

  • Web JNB (in Japanese) allows you to search and download JNB data and newly arrived (in-process) bibliographic data, by bibliography completion date, material category (book/serials, etc.), ISBN, ISSN, author, keyword, etc.
  • Downloadable data formats are MARC, MARC tag, DC-NDL(RDF), TSV, JSON and Bibtex.
  • All of the above data formats, including MARC format and MARC tag format, can be downloaded one by one from the bibliography details screen and as multiple items at once from the search results list screen.
  • JNB data is also available in NDL Search.

Application Programming Interfaces (API) via NDL Search

Application Programming Interfaces for search and acquisition of NDL Search metadata are available. Use the appropriate "data provider ID (DPID)" to specify metadata groups.

Target database Interface type(protocol)
SRU OpenSearch OAI-PMH
Japanese National Bibliography iss-ndl-opac-national iss-ndl-opac-national iss-ndl-opac-national
Japanese National Bibliography Records of e-Books and e-Periodicals ndl-dl-online
* Specifying "ndl-dl-open" will target bibliographies that are available as open data.
ndl-dl-online
* Specifying "ndl-dl-open" will target bibliographies that are available as open data.
ndl-dl-online
Newly arrived (in-process) records iss-ndl-opac-inprocess iss-ndl-opac-inprocess iss-ndl-opac-inprocess

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JNB Records of e-Books and e-Periodicals

JNB Records of e-Books and e-Periodicals are bibliographic data for e-books and e-periodicals acquired by NDL. You can download this data from the following web services and websites.

Web Japanese National Bibliography Records of e-Books and e-Periodicals

  • Web Japanese National Bibliography Records of e-Books and e-Periodicals allows you to search and download JNB records of e-books and e-periodicals data, by record release date, title, author, published date etc.
  • Downloadable data formats are TSV, DC-NDL(RDF), JSON and Bibtex.
  • All of the above data formats can be downloaded one by one from the bibliography details screen and as multiple items at once from the search results list screen.

JNB Records of e-Books and e-Periodicals files uploaded on NDL web site

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JAPAN/MARC

  • JAPAN/MARC is a machine-readable version of the Japanese National Bibliography and name authority data. Newly cataloged, corrected, or deleted records are updated weekly and available at "JAPAN/MARCデータ(毎週更新) (JAPAN/MARC Weekly Update)" (in Japanese).
  • Please refer to "JAPAN/MARC Manual and Format" for details on the data format and provided elements.
  • The complete JAPAN/MARC data is available upon request. Please send requests to the following division of the NDL.

Acquisitions Administration and Bibliographic Control Division
Acquisitions and Bibliography Department
National Diet Library
E-mail: bib-dlアットマークエヌディーエルピリオドジーオーピリオドジェーピー

Please include "Requesting complete JAPAN/MARC data" in your subject line.
Please indicate in the body of your email whether you are requesting JAPAN/MARC(MS) data or JAPAN/MARC(A) data.
JAPAN/MARC(MS) data contains JNB data, JAPAN/MARC(A) data contains name authority data.

Further details are available in Japanese at "書誌データの利用方法 > 書誌データ等の全件提供 > JAPAN/MARC全件データ提供 (About the complete JAPAN/MARC data)".

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Brief history of the Japanese National Bibliography

See the following page on the history of the Japanese National Bibliography.

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