Annual maintenance work will take place again this summer, which is why the reading rooms at the Heldenplatz location and in all collections will be closed from Friday, July 25, to Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
Due to the shutdown of the ordering system, no media orders can be accepted from Thursday, July 24, 2025, 4 p.m. to Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 4 p.m. The regular opening hours will then apply again from Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
The study room of the Albertina is closed from July 15 to August 15. During this time (except July 25 to August 5), media ordered from the Albertina collection will be transported twice a week (Monday and Thursday) to the reading rooms of the National Library on Heldenplatz and can be used there.
Starting August 1, 2025, the State Hall will open at 9 a.m.
Due to an event, the State Hall will be closed on August 4, 2025.
The collection remit of the Austrian National Library also covers periodic electronic media that are not or no longer published. This includes for instance e-journals published on the Internet, online publications by private individuals, companies (annual reports, activity reports, etc.) and academic institutions (e.g. research reports).
In cases where online media are subject to access control or restrictions or cannot be automatically collected by the Austrian National Library for technical reasons, the Austrian Media Act (Sec. 43b MedienG) stipulates the depositing of electronic media by the media owner. The requirement to deposit arises when a written request is made by the Austrian National Library.
As the media owner, you can meet the requirement to deposit in any technical form as agreed with the Austrian National Library. Possible ways of depositing include (Sec. 15 Legal deposit regulation):
The format of the publication to be deposited should be preferably PDF/A or PDF.
The media content deposited can only be accessed on the premises of the Austrian National Library and other authorised libraries. Electronic reproduction of media content is not possible. It is only possible to make print-outs. As the media owner, you are also able to have the media content blocked for a year by providing corresponding reasons in writing.
By issuing an authorisation of use, you can authorise the Austrian National Library to offer electronic publications over and beyond the restrictions described above.
With an authorisation of use, you, as the media owner, can determine how the Austrian National Library may make your publications available.
There are three options:
Please send the completed and signed authorisation of use scanned in to e-pubs[at]onb.ac.at