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International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ: ''Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur'') covers the
academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...
literature in the
humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at t ...
,
social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...
, and related disciplines. Coverage includes journals from 40 countries and in more than 40 languages. Subject indexing is based on the
Subject Headings Authority File The or SWD (translated as ''Subject Headings Authority File'') is a controlled vocabulary index term system used primarily for subject indexing in library catalogs. The SWD is managed by the German National Library (DNB) in cooperation with vari ...
(''Schlagwortnormdatei'') and
Name Authority File The or PND (translated as ''Name Authority File'') is an authority file of people, which served primarily to access literature in libraries. The PND has been built up between 1995 and 1998 and was published by the German National Library (DNB) unt ...
(''Personennormdatei'') published by the
German National Library The German National Library (DNB; german: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. Its task is to colle ...
. The file size is over 3.3 million records from over 11,000 journals, with 120,000 records added annually. (; ).


IBR

''IBR'' represents ''International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences'' (Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur) () is a bibliographical database covering scholarly works. It is published by K. G. Saur.


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Further reading

* Describes the historical development of IBZ, and the methods used to select journal for coverage. Strengths and weaknesses are evaluated and IBZ is compared to other indexes.


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* Bibliographic databases and indexes {{humanities-journal-stub