Licensing Options

• Most of the content on NFB/ONF is publicly accessible. A paid subscription does not provide additional access, but it does include institutional licensing for all publicly accessible content.
• Some but not all of the publicly accessible titles on NFB/ONF are available for separate institutional licensing by non-subscribers. (I.e., subscription includes licensing for some titles that can't be licensed for institutional use otherwise.)
• Some of the content on NFB/ONF is only available for rent by individual users (i.e., paid, short-term personal use) and is not included in a paid institutional subscription.

Access Details

Access via EZproxy is not necessary, but is supported for purposes of usage tracking.

• https://www.nfb.ca/education/ [2]
• https://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-films/ [3]

MARC Records

NFB updates their MARCs monthly. They distribute their MARCs through two channels:

• OCLC: Institutions who subscribe to OCLC's cataloguing service can find NFB MARCs in their Knowledge Base catalogue. Details are available in OCLC's monthly Collections in the WorldCat knowledge base [4] file.

• NFB admin site: An admin user account on https://www.nfb.ca/ [5] is required.

  • Each month, a complete catalog file is provided as well as incremental catalog files (monthly updates)

  • For assistance with an existing account, your members can contact the vendor directly. If they experience any service issues, please let us know.

  • To create a new admin account, they must first create a normal individual user account on NFB.ca, and then contact OCLS. We will ask the vendor to turn the account into an admin account.

Alma-Primo

The NFB collection in the Alma-Primo Community Zone has not been updated since the mass withdrawals began in the summer of 2024. NFB is currently working on re-establishing contact with Ex Libris but as of Dec 2024, there is no projected update date.