Libraries in the Knihovny.cz Project

Libraries currently participating
Digital Libraries
Connected Resources
Central Index = International Resources
Founding members of the portal

Libraries currently participating

Portal Knihovny.cz and the project itself was created thanks to the co-operation of twenty county libraries, specialized libraries and city libraries, and other libraries participate as partners. The ambition of Knihovny.cz is to connect the majority of Czech libraries in the near future. The number of libraries involved is 98.

Central Bohemian Region

Hradec Králové Region

Karlovy Vary Region

Liberec Region

Moravia-Silesia Region

Olomouc Region

Pardubice Region

Plzeň Region

Prague

South Bohemia Region

South Moravian Region

Ústí Region

Vysočina Region

Zlín Region

Read more about how to register as a reader in these institutions.

Digital Libraries

With searchable metadata and fulltexts

With searchable metadata

Connected Resources

The Union Catalogue of the Czech Republic- an electronic database which contains a list of collections held by participating libraries and other public institutions of the Czech Republic. Currently holds more than 6.2 million records of monographs, special documents and serials (journals, anthologies, proceedings, etc..) of foreign and domestic origin. Unlike portal Knihovny.cz it informs about the existence and location of particular document but does not allow to order or reserve. The Union Catalogue may not contain complete catalogs of connected libraries because of the high demands on the quality of taken records.
A bibliography of articles from Czech serial publications ANL - an electronics database contains a bibliography of articles from Czech magazines, anthologies and newspapers since 1990. There is more than 1,5 million records with a yearly growth of 58, 000.
National authorities of Czech Republic include files of personnel, corporate, topical, geographic and formal authorities to use for subject and bibliographic description.
Open Library - internet book database. For entries in Knihovny.cz’s it offers to borrow a digital version of publications after the registration.
Manuscriptorium - a freely accessible digital library which enables ready access to concentrated information on historical resources via sophisticated search tools. The objective of the project is to provide access to existing digital content via integrated tools in order to make it as readily accessible as possible.
Bibliographia medica Čechoslovaca -national registering bibliography, which records within the field of medicine (biomedicine) and health service all scientific publications from year 1947 published in Czech Republic (and until year 1996 also in Slovakia) as well as works of Czech authors published outside the Czech republic.
Standards (ČSN) - includes valid and out of date standards, which have been processed in electronic form. Full texts are available after the registration and paying the fee set by a pricelist of the Czech Office of Standards, Metrology and Testing..
Patents - the database of patents and utility models encompassing applications of inventions registered from year 1991, patents granted from no.1, European patents valid in Czech Republic, and registered utility models. Full texts are freely available. Joining this into portal is currently in progress.
Zákony pro lidi (Laws for People) - up-to-date version of Regulations of Collection of Law of the Czech Republic
Osobnosti regionu (Regional Notabilities)- information about significant persons from various regions. Records are enriched by mutual relations, photos and links to other additional information.
Pedagogical Bibliographic Database- contains annotated bibliographic records from Czech and foreign specialized pedagogical and comeniological journals and proceedings.
Bibliological bibliography- contains monographic studies and journal articles on the history of books, book printing and libraries in Bohemia and Moravia up to the mid-19th century, and the bibliographical work of Czech researchers without any territorial delimitation of the topic.
Czech Literary Bibliography - bibliography, which for almost 70 years has been under construction at the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, a public research institute. The Czech Literary Bibliography comprises a set of bibliographical databases updated on an ongoing basis, which systematically reflect cultural journalism and specialist texts on Czech literature and literary life in the Czech lands.
Czech Agricultural and Food Bibliography - bibliographic database ofspecialized journals subscribed byKAŠ (since1993). The basecontains records of articles from selected Czech periodicals and proceedings in the field of agriculture, food industry and related fields. The database is continuously updated with an annual increment over 7000 records. The records are indexed enriched by agriculture thesaurus AGROVOC terms.
Theater Bibliography - specialized bibliographic database of articles created by The Arts and Theatre Institute
Musicological bibliographic database - The Musicological Bibliographic Database gathers bibliographic records recording musicological production in the Czech Lands, including foreign publications by Czech musicologists.
Bibliography of the History of the Czech Lands - provides a free public access to the internet database which currently contains more than 500,000 entries of the professional literature since 1990 (selectively since 1945).
Bibliography of the Czech archival science - processes Czech scientific and expert book production in the field of archival science and all important Bohemian, Moravian, and Silesian journals on archival science, history, and regional studies. It continues in the project of processing lists of archival literature published in print (issued in 1959, 1970, and 1990).
KTD: Czech Explanatory Terminology Database of Library and Information Science (TDKIV) - database of librarianship and information science managed by Library Institute NK ČR was founded in 2001-2002. It contains about 3200 complete entries (ie about 4900 terms including equivalents) representing all the essential areas of librarianship and information science and related disciplines.
Czech National Corpus:a large research infrastructurecontinuously mapping the Czech language by building large electronic language corpora and providing access to them.The Index of Knihovny.cz portal is enriched with data from the Spelling Dictionary of the 19th Century to enhance the search for period documents.
Czech Literature in Translation in the Period 1989-2020 - created by Moravian Library in Brno
Reception of World Literature in the Czech Republic - created by University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice - Faculty of Arts - Institute of Czech Studies and Moravian Library in Brno
Czech Geographical Bibliography Online - To create and make accessible the 20th and 21st century geographical bibliography of Czechia. The databases will include various geographical documents written by Czech authors and also by foreign authors in those cases they are dealing with geographical issues of Czechia. The aim is to develop a geographical bibliography for virtual research environment and for the cooperation of geographical libraries. This way, we strive to make cultural resources easily available not only to the university education but also to the general public.
Bibliography of Foreign-Language Printed Bohemica up to 1800 - The BFPB database records and makes available foreign-language print production in Latin script published in the Czech lands before 1800. It also partly records data on Bohemian production of foreign printers and selectively on Czech book illustration. The BFPB together with the Knihopis database forms the Czech national retrospective bibliography. Their virtual connection on the Knihověda.cz portal represents the basic infrastructure for research on Czech book culture up to the end of the 18th century.

Central Index = International Resources

The Central Index (accessible through the "International Resources" tab) is a large database with millions of records that contains metadata for documents from a variety of sources: ie journals published by leading world publishers of scientific literature, specialized databases, and freely available information resources.

Access to full texts that are not freely available requires registration in some of the libraries with prepaid subscribtion to the resource. However, the Central Index also provides a number of free resources available to unregistered users.

Founding members of the portal

Organizational matters of the portal are currently secured by SDRUK (Czech Association of Libraries) – together with 22 libraries it is a founding member of the portal. The libraries intensely participate in preparation of the whole portal. They delegate experts into groups which are solving partial tasks concerning the realization of the portal. These experts also rise functional comments regarding individual phases of project development, as well as they continuously integrate their stocks into the central database of the portal.