About the British National Bibliography

The British National Bibliography (BNB) consists of descriptions of:

• books and journal titles published or distributed in the United Kingdom and Ireland since 1950, and electronic publications since 2013
• forthcoming books, registered through the Cataloguing-in-Publication (CIP) service

The British National Biblioography is not a catalogue of the British Library’s collections and does not enable access to collection items.

Use our online catalogues to explore the Library’s collection of books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound recording, Many of our digital collections provide material for free online, or please come to our reading rooms to access materials that is not available online.

Read our subject guides to find out more of our core research areas

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