Deposit library acquisitions
| 2003 | Projected 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | |
| Books received | 39.930 | 38.000 | 40.650 | 38.912 | 39.000 |
| Current periodical subscriptions | 11.620 | 11.850 | 11.780 | 11.881 | 11.800 |
| Number of issues of periodicals | 95.310 | 96.000 | 96.540 | 98.870 | 97.750 |
| Increase in electronic publications | 1.531.300 | - | 119.630 | 127. | 132.090 |
Inputting of the deposit library collection
| 2003 | Projected 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | |
| Title records, Dutch Bibliography: books | 34.290 | 34.000 | 43.870 | 38.200 | 37.000 |
| Title records, Dutch Bibliography: subscriptions | 1.620 | 1.150 | 1.340 | 1.300 | 1.850 |
| Title records: STCN | 4.390 | 4.000 | 11.767 | 8.160 | 11.270 |
| Digitization of the card catalogue | 118.050 | 130.000 | 29.560 | 38.630 | 30.500 |
E-Deposit System
As the national library, the KB has the responsibility of preserving Dutch publications for the future, which also increasingly applies to digital material. At the end of 2002 the KB launched the e-Deposit system, a digital archive for the long-term preservation of digital publications. With a storage capacity of 12 terabytes (1 terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes), which can be increased to at least 500 terabytes, the KB is equipped with adequate archiving capacity for the coming period. The deposit system is technologically durable and adjustable, and satisfies the ISO OAIS standard. The KB developed this storage system in collaboration with IBM. After only six months, the millionth electronic article was input. Through the successful introduction of the e-Deposit system, the KB was able to acquire more than ten times the number of electronic publications that it did in 2002.
E-Deposit System: agreements with publishers
Electronic archiving agreements were drawn up with Kluwer Academic Publishers and BioMed Central in 2003. The KB will function as a digital archive for the publications issued by Kluwer and BioMed, as it now does for Elsevier. For everyone involved in research and in the distribution of research results - authors, researchers, librarians and publishers - this is an important step forward in the permanent availability of digital archives.
Kluwer supplies the KB with digital copies of all the periodicals and books it publishes, available via the web platform Kluwer Online. This covers about 300,000 articles from 670 publications and more than 1,000 'e-books' in the areas of science, technology and medicine. The KB will provide on-site access to the periodicals to library visitors in possession of library cards.
The BioMed periodicals are freely available, both inside and outside the KB. BioMed Central is an 'Open Access' publisher, which means that the research results published by BioMed Central can be distributed online for free and without licensing limitations. At the moment BioMed Central's collection consists of 1,000 periodicals with more than 2,500 articles, and it is growing rapidly.
With these agreements, the KB can provide publishers with a reliable solution for the long-term storage of electronic publications.
Deposit library and the Dutch bibliography
The KB collects material on the basis of voluntary deposit. Because of its good working relationship with publishers, the KB has succeeded in acquiring the majority of all regular publications appearing in the Netherlands each year. At least 98% of all regular publishers deposited their publications with the KB in 2003. The KB uses the deposit library collection as the basis for the current Dutch bibliography, which is published on CD ROM under the title Brinkman's Cumulatieve Catalogus van Nederlandse Publicaties. The titles supplied to the deposit library by Dutch publishers are quickly publicized via the NetUit web service, an up-to-the-minute publicity service that is available to everyone at no cost.
To make it easier to find pre-computer-age publications in the KB collection, a project to digitize the card catalogue was begun in 2002 and will continue until 2005, for which the KB has signed a contract with the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC PICA) in Ohio (US). This project has quadrupled the number of input bibliographical records.
Short Title Catalogue, Netherlands
The Short Title Catalogue, Netherlands (STCN) is the Dutch bibliography up to 1800. In the year under review, work was done on inputting books in the British Library from before 1622 and on the eighteenth-century collections from the Utrecht University Library and the Hague Municipal Archives. In 2004 the collection of the Library of the Free University of Amsterdam will be added. A web exhibition celebrated the successful completion of the STCN Basis Catalogue project. Unfortunately no resources could be found for follow-up work. The KB did work with the Netherlands Press Museum on a plan for a national bibliography of newspapers up to 1869. This bibliography coincides nicely with the work of the STCN, in which newspapers, because of their special character, are not yet included. Access to the STCN is free via the KB website.
Input in international databanks
| 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | |
| ISSN | 1.780 | 1.160 | 1.440 | 1.800 |
| SIGLE | 1.620 | 6.940 | 7.780 | 10.000 |
The KB takes care of the registration of periodicals and other serial publications issued in the Netherlands by assigning them an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). In the year under review, 1,778 ISSNs were added to the international database.
The KB contributed 1,623 titles to SIGLE, the international database for grey literature in the natural sciences, technology, economics, the social sciences and the humanities. SIGLE is a cooperative project of the European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation. Participation in EAGLE/SIGLE was evaluated in 2003 and the KB, like the British Library, has decided to terminate its contribution at the end of 2004.