GBV (GVK) as a bibliographic online source
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2023 7:39 pm
I highly recommend GBV (GVK) as a bibliographic online source. This Library Network has been steadily growing, and the number of participating institutions has now reached 2010!
I made a random comparison with the Library of Congress just now. I searched for the novelists Joseph Conrad, Halldór Laxness (winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature), and a few other famous authors. In all cases the hits in GBV (GVK) greatly outnumbered the hits I got from the Library of Congress. Since GBV (GVK) is not a library but a network of more than 2000 libraries and institutions, the same item may have turned up multiple times, I didn't test that. But the results are impressive:
Shakespeare
In GBV (GVK) 80033
Library of Congress 10000
Joseph Conrad
In GBV (GVK) 8483
Library of Congress 1171
Voltaire
In GBV (GVK) 20742
Library of Congress 3718
Rousseau
In GBV (GVK) 25746
Library of Congress 8213
Henrik Ibsen
In GBV (GVK) 4490
Library of Congress 632
August Strindberg
In GBV (GVK) 4115
Library of Congress 379
Aristotle
In GBV (GVK) 28577
Library of Congress 7246
Aristoteles
In GBV (GVK) 24898
Library of Congress 1426
Halldór Laxness
In GBV (GVK) 766
Library of Congress 169
I made a random comparison with the Library of Congress just now. I searched for the novelists Joseph Conrad, Halldór Laxness (winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature), and a few other famous authors. In all cases the hits in GBV (GVK) greatly outnumbered the hits I got from the Library of Congress. Since GBV (GVK) is not a library but a network of more than 2000 libraries and institutions, the same item may have turned up multiple times, I didn't test that. But the results are impressive:
Shakespeare
In GBV (GVK) 80033
Library of Congress 10000
Joseph Conrad
In GBV (GVK) 8483
Library of Congress 1171
Voltaire
In GBV (GVK) 20742
Library of Congress 3718
Rousseau
In GBV (GVK) 25746
Library of Congress 8213
Henrik Ibsen
In GBV (GVK) 4490
Library of Congress 632
August Strindberg
In GBV (GVK) 4115
Library of Congress 379
Aristotle
In GBV (GVK) 28577
Library of Congress 7246
Aristoteles
In GBV (GVK) 24898
Library of Congress 1426
Halldór Laxness
In GBV (GVK) 766
Library of Congress 169