VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File

The VIAF® (Virtual International Authority File) combines multiple name authority files into a single OCLC-hosted name authority service. The goal of the service is to lower the cost and increase the utility of library authority files by matching and linking widely-used authority files and making that information available on the Web. Learn more.

• Library of Congress/NACO
  • National Library of Mexico
  • British Library
  • Library and Archives Canada
  • National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
  • National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
  • National Library of New Zealand
  • National Library of Scotland
  • National Library of South Africa
  • National Library of Wales
• German National Library
• National Library of France
• National Library of Sweden
• National Library of Australia
• National Library of Spain
• National Library of Portugal
• National Library of Brazil
• Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of the Italian libraries
• National Library of the Czech Republic
• National Library of Israel
  • Israel Museum
• Library of Alexandria, Egypt
• Vatican Library
• Swiss National Library
• Library and Archives Canada/PFAN
  • National Library and Archives of Québec
• Union List of Artist Names [Getty Research Institute]
• NUKAT Center of Warsaw University Library
• National Széchényi Library, Hungary
• RERO - Library Network of Western Switzerland
• Sudoc [ABES], France
• Flemish Public Libraries
• National Library of Russia
• National Library of the Netherlands
• BIBSYS
• National Library of Greece
• National Library of Argentina

• National Library of Norway
• DBC (Danish Bibliographic Center)
  • Danish Agency for Culture
• National Diet Library, Japan
• NII (Japan)
• National Library Board, Singapore
• National Library of Latvia
• National Library of Poland
• National Library of Catalonia
• Lebanese National Library
• Perseus
• Syriac Reference Portal
• Wikidata
• ISNI
• National Library of Ireland
• National and University Library in Zagreb
• National Central Library, Taiwan
• National Library and Archives of Québec
• National Library of Korea
• National Library of Luxembourg
• National Library of Chile
• National Library of Morocco
• xA Extended Authorities
• xR Extended Relationships
• FAST Subjects
• National Library of Estonia
• National and University Library of Iceland (NULI)
• Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, Inc. (RILM)
• International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM)
• NUK/COBISS.SI, Slovenia
• National Library of Lithuania
• Slovak National Library
• United Arab Emirates University

Search Note

The search box at the top of this page searches a merged view of VIAF derived from the name authority and related bibliographic data of the participating libraries.

More information can be found at http://viaf.org/viaf/