Data Licensing

Sample Data

For each of our services, a test file containing sample bibliographic data is available from our anonymous FTP server. These files are intended for test purposes only.

Test files are listed below together with the information you need to download them. Each test file has an associated FTP label file (suffix .lbl).

Files are available in either UKMARC, MARC21 or ASCII formats depending on the particular service. For further information about MARC, please refer to 'Sources of MARC information'.

To download a file, use your mouse to right click on the relevant file name and choose 'Save target as....'

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UKMARC Exchange Files:

British National Bibliography

Available files:

	db2587.bex - BNB weekly file with no segment control words (SCWs)
	db2587.lbl - associated label file
	bnb2587.bex - BNB weekly file with SCWs included
	bnb2587.lbl - associated label file

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Library of Congress 'Books All' File

Available files:

	dlc579.lex - LC weekly file, no SCWs
	dlc579.lbl - associated label file
	lc579.lex - LC weekly file, including SCWs
	lc579.lbl - associated label file

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British Library Humanities and Social Sciences File

Available files:

	dhss0601.bex - HSS weekly file, no SCWs
	dhss0601.lbl - associated label file
	hss0601.bex - HSS weekly file, including SCWs
	hss0601.lbl - associated label file

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British Library Science, Technology and Business File

Available files:

	dsr0701.bex - STB weekly file, no SCWs
	dsr0701.lbl - associated label file
	sr0701.bex - STB weekly file, including SCWs
	sr0701.lbl - associated label file

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British Library Music File

Available files:

	dmus1402.bex - Music weekly file, no SCWs
	dmus1402.lbl - associated label file>
	mus1402.bex - Music weekly file, including SCWs
	mus1402.lbl - associated label file

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British Library Document Supply Conferences File

Available files:

	dcon0201.bex - Document Supply Conferences monthly file, no SCWs
	dcon0201.lbl - associated label file
	con0201.bex - Document Supply Conferences monthly file, including SCWs
	con0201.lbl - associated label file

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British Library Document Supply Monographs File

Available files:

	dmon0201.bex - Document Supply Monographs monthly file, no SCWs
	dmon0201.lbl - associated label file
	mon0201.bex - Document Supply Monographs monthly file, including SCWs
	mon0201.lbl - associated label file

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MARC 21 Exchange Files

British National Bibliography

Available files:

	2628.lex - BNB weekly file with no segment control words (SCWs) and with either the BNB number or ISBN in the 001 field.
	2628.lbl - associated label file.
	b2628.lex - BNB weekly file with no SCWs and where the control number in field is a BNB number formatted in accordance with Library of Congress practice.
	b2628.lbl - associated label file.
	w-2628.lex - BNB weekly file including SCWs and with either the BNB number or ISBN in the 001 field.
	w-2628.lbl - associated label file.
	wb2628.lex - BNB weekly file including SCWs where the control number in field 001 is a BNB number formatted in accordance with Library of Congress practice.
	wb2628.lbl - associated label file.

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British Library Document Supply Monographs File

Available files:

dscmsamp.lex - Document Supply Monograph file.

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British Library Humanities and Social Sciences File

Available files:

hsssamp.lex - HSS weekly file.

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British Library Science, Technology and Business File

stbsamp1.lex - STB weekly file.

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ASCII Text Files

Document Supply Serials File

Available files:

	generic.txt - Document Supply Serials quarterly file in ASCII text format
	mser0300.bex - Document Supply Serials quarterly file in UKMARC exchange format. No segment control words.

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Electronic Table of Contents File (ETOC)

Available files:

	bl1178db.zip - Compressed file containing ETOC Serials file in SGML
	ic1538.zip - Compressed file containing ETOC Conferences file in SGML

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AMED

Available files:

	c4135.txt - Sample tagged file
	amed-tagged.csv - Sample comma separated file

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Copyright Fee File

Available files:

copyr.txt - weekly copyright file in comma delimited format

Technical Information

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