The Knihověda.cz portal represents a part of the basic infrastructure for the research of Czech book culture until 1800 in the form of integrated bibliographic sources, explanatory texts, and also new research tools. The aim of the portal is to create a new platform for basic research of Czech book culture, taking into account its popularization and educational potential.

Here you will find a combined bibliographic database of Bohemian prints, manuscripts, and modern literature, which records all known editions of Czech and foreign language books printed in the Czech territory from the 15th century to 1800, as well as sources for Bohemian manuscripts. The portal also includes a brand new visualisation and research tool, the Map of Print Production in Bohemia and Moravia to 1800, which provides interactive access to Czech print production published in the territory of the Czech Republic today, with the possibility of selective display according to various criteria. The portal further includes the online Encyclopaedia of the Book in the Czech Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, which places the results of research on book culture in the form of encyclopaedic entries into a broader context that can be used for educational purposes at multiple levels. The homepage of Knihověda.cz also publishes news from the field of research on older book culture.

The Knihověda.cz portal is the result of teamwork by experts from the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the National Library of the Czech Republic and the Masaryk Institute and the Archive of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and was implemented with the support of a program to support applied research and experimental development of national and cultural identity for 2016–2022 (NAKI II), project identification code DG16P02H015.