大英图书馆在线书目

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关于大英图书馆，我们是英国国家图书馆。通过综合书目检索系统（Main Catalogue）查询超过1.7亿件藏品的信息。收藏了如《贝奥武夫》手稿、莎士比亚作品四开本、古腾堡圣经及《大宪章》等世界级文献珍品。

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英国图书馆

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收录时间：

08/13/2026

更新时间：

08/20/2026

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New library catalogue

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NOTE: This catalogue does not include records for Archives and Manuscripts, Electronic Legal Deposit content, or for Sound and Moving Images. These can be accessed from the links in the top menu.

What’s available

Following a cyber-attack in October 2023 our research services are disrupted. Please check the lists below for the availability of the service you need.

Catalogues

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Main catalogue This is our main catalogue of books and other published material, and some freely available electronic resources. Here you can create a user profile where you can save your searches, order items and check the status of your requests.Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue The interim Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue contains descriptions created before October 2023 of our archives and manuscripts collections and much of our visual arts collection.Sound and Moving Image Catalogue The interim Sound and Moving Image Catalogue contains records for our sound and vision archive. E-Theses Online Service (EThOS) A metadata service providing access to thousands of theses records, from the 1700s onwards. Many of these records will direct you to the awarding institution’s repository where you can access the thesis itself. Incunabula Short Title Catalogue British National Bibliography (BNB) Published as linked data English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) Explore the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) hosted by the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) to search around 500,000 records of works printed in the English-speaking world before 1801, held in institutions across the globe. Works which are held at the British Library are also discoverable in our main catalogue. You can filter your search results to ESTC only next to the search bar. This will bring up items in ESTC scope in the British Library collection. Electronic Legal Deposit (eLD) catalogue In 2013 the six legal deposit libraries of the UK and Ireland were granted the right to receive a copy of every UK electronic publication, on the same basis as they have received print publications such as books, magazines and newspapers since the seventeenth century. You can search for eLD material which was deposited before October 2023 in this catalogue including e-books and journal articles.	Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts Catalogue of Photographically Illustrated Books Evanion catalogue Selected images can be found on British Library Images Online. Search “Evan” for a list of results. Register of Preservation Surrogates A microfiche version is available, please ask our team for help Sloane Printed Books catalogue Details are available on the main catalogue. Search “Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753, former owner” to find books previously in his collection.

Available

Not available

Main catalogue
This is our main catalogue of books and other published material, and some freely available electronic resources. Here you can create a user profile where you can save your searches, order items and check the status of your requests.Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
The interim Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue contains descriptions created before October 2023 of our archives and manuscripts collections and much of our visual arts collection.Sound and Moving Image Catalogue
The interim Sound and Moving Image Catalogue contains records for our sound and vision archive.

E-Theses Online Service (EThOS)
A metadata service providing access to thousands of theses records, from the 1700s onwards. Many of these records will direct you to the awarding institution’s repository where you can access the thesis itself.

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue

British National Bibliography (BNB)
Published as linked data

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
Explore the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) hosted by the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) to search around 500,000 records of works printed in the English-speaking world before 1801, held in institutions across the globe. Works which are held at the British Library are also discoverable in our main catalogue. You can filter your search results to ESTC only next to the search bar. This will bring up items in ESTC scope in the British Library collection.

Electronic Legal Deposit (eLD) catalogue
In 2013 the six legal deposit libraries of the UK and Ireland were granted the right to receive a copy of every UK electronic publication, on the same basis as they have received print publications such as books, magazines and newspapers since the seventeenth century. You can search for eLD material which was deposited before October 2023 in this catalogue including e-books and journal articles.

Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts

Catalogue of Photographically Illustrated Books

Evanion catalogue
Selected images can be found on British Library Images Online. Search “Evan” for a list of results.

Register of Preservation Surrogates
A microfiche version is available, please ask our team for help

Sloane Printed Books catalogue
Details are available on the main catalogue. Search “Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753, former owner” to find books previously in his collection.

Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue

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Archives and Manuscripts

You’re viewing the beta version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. We’re still refining things and would love your feedback. Let us know if you have any by emailing [email protected].

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About this catalogue

This catalogue is an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. It contains catalogue records created before October 2023, and we are not able to list any newly catalogued items in it for the time being.

If you are looking for any other collection items that aren’t archives, manuscripts or visual arts collections, you can search for them on our main catalogue.

Material included

Western manuscripts and archival documents from medieval times to the present day
material from and about Asia and Africa including the India Office Library, Records, Private Papers and Visual Arts collections
music manuscripts
prints, drawings and photographs
maps
philatelic material
items in the Endangered Archives Programme, which digitises material from around the world which is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. These items are not held at the Library but digital copies are available to view.

Please note

not all of our manuscripts and archives are listed in this catalogue yet. If you can’t find what you need, please speak to our Reference team
some of the metadata in this interim catalogue has come from older printed catalogues and occasional errors may have been introduced when those catalogues were converted to digital format
digitised content marked ‘unavailable’ is currently not accessible online. We’re working to make this available again as soon as we can
some items include links to digitised versions or to pages on the British Library website and some URLs are not currently working. Please bear with us as we improve this content.