What is NOSP?The Nordic/Baltic Union Catalogue of Serials (NOSP) contains references to serials available in Nordic and Baltic libraries. By means of a variety of bibliographic access points such as title, year of publication, publisher and ISSN the user may easily identify a specific serial. Article copies may be requested from the holding libraries via the online ordering service. NOSP covers all subject areas. The main emphasis is, however, on natural science, medicine and social science.
NOSP is based on a co-operation between national union catalogues and national libraries in:
Denmark,
Iceland,
Sweden,
Finland,
Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania,
the Faroe Islands
and Norway.
NOSP is prepared by merging data from
The ISSN International Centre with location and holding information from the participating countries.
Organisation and background
NOSP was established at the
University of Helsinki Library in 1977 as a NORDINFO project. In 1993 the operations moved to Oslo. Daily management is carried out by the NOSP-Centre at the National Library of Norway since 1999. The NOSP productsNOSP on WebNOSP on Web contains references to more than 420 000 serials in aboout 1300 Nordic and Baltic libraries. More than 190 000 serial records contain ISSN, while more than 230 000 records do not have ISSN. It is possible to either search in the unique ISSN database or to perform a combined search with or without ISSN. The database is updated quarterly and has an online ordering service of article copies. NOSP on Web is available to the general public. Searching facilities are offered free of charge. There is a transaction fee for article copy ordering.
Annual subscription fee: NOK 500,- for ordering 1-100 copies. 101-3000 orders: NOK 5,- per order. Orders exceeding NOK 15.000,- will not be charged. For further information please contact:The NOSP-CentreNational Library of Norway, Oslo Division P.O.Box 2674 Solli NO-0203 OSLO Norway
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