Background information

General information

The Austrian Library Network (OBV) is the largest network of scientific and administrative libraries in Austria with 70 participants, representing more than 90 individual institutions - including the Austrian National Library, the university libraries and the colleges of education; individual ministries, numerous technical colleges and other important collections (e.g. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Parliamentary Library, AK Wien, MAK and the Sigmund Freud Foundation). All participants share the same online cataloguing network.

Key data

The Austrian Central Catalogue includes 20 million titles with more than 33.2 million copies and 0.78 million journals (March 2026).

Visit the Austrian Central Catalogue at https://search.obvsg.at