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British National Bibliography
The British National Bibliography is the British Library's record of everything published in the UK and Ireland since 1950, now published as BIBFRAME/RDA linked open data through the multi-national "Share Family" platform. Its original bnb.data.bl.uk endpoint has been offline since the Library's October 2023 cyber-attack destroyed its digital infrastructure; the catalog has since resurfaced on a beta institutional search portal, per the Library's own service-status and metadata-services pages.
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