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VLB
The VLB (short for Verzeichnis Lieferbarer Bücher, aka. Directory of Deliverable Books) is the central database for books being published and marketed in the German-speaking market (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). For booksellers, it is the primary source of information on all titles published in the German-speaking world.
VLB notes they run
more than 1.000 quality checks and plausibilities provide high quality standards and ensure good data quality throughout the German book market.
- via web interface at
- or via ONIX files
A visual representation of their data model, detailing the different fields and categories of book data they record is available at https://vlb.de/assets/images/VLB_Datenumfang_Grafik.pdf
Fees for the title registration are per title and calendar year. One to ~19 titles can be registered as part of the annual minimum fee (69,-€ / year for gold-standard metadata / 99,-€ / year for lower-quality metadata). Once the minimum fee has been reached, additional titles are charged an extra per-title fee, details at https://vlb.de/en/services/titelmeldung
The Thoth Wiki has been developed in the context of the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project. Individual contributions to the wiki have been made by Tim Elfenbein, Joanne Fitzpatrick, Rupert Gatti, Ross Higman, Hannah Hillen, Brendan O'Connell, Tobias Steiner, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei under the general editorship of Van Gerven Oei. All data are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license.