Please note that we only assign a single BIC subject code to each title.
| Code | Description |
|---|
| AC | History of art / art & design styles - 24 titles |
| ACQ | History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800 - 5 titles |
| ACQB | Art & design styles: Baroque - 2 titles |
| AGB | Individual artists, art monographs - 1 title |
| AK | Industrial / commercial art & design - 8 titles |
| CBD | Dictionaries - 2 titles |
| CBW | Writing & editing guides - 1 title |
| CBX | Language: history & general works - 7 titles |
| CF | Linguistics - 1847 titles |
| CF/2A | Linguistics/Indo-European languages - 1 title |
| CF/2AB | Linguistics/English - 69 titles |
| CF/2ABU | Linguistics/Australian English - 1 title |
| CF/2AC | Linguistics/Germanic & Scandinavian languages - 20 titles |
| CF/2ACD | Linguistics/Dutch - 2 titles |
| CF/2ACG | Linguistics/German - 3 titles |
| CF/2ACZ | Linguistics/Other Germanic languages & dialects - 1 title |
| CF/2AD | Linguistics/Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages - 44 titles |
| CF/2ADC | Linguistics/Catalan - 5 titles |
| CF/2ADF | Linguistics/French - 4 titles |
| CF/2ADL | Linguistics/Latin - 1 title |
| CF/2ADP | Linguistics/Portuguese - 3 titles |
| CF/2ADR | Linguistics/Romanian - 1 title |
| CF/2ADS | Linguistics/Spanish - 33 titles |
| CF/2ADSL | Linguistics/Latin-American Spanish - 1 title |
| CF/2ADT | Linguistics/Italian - 2 titles |
| CF/2AG | Linguistics/Slavic (Slavonic) languages - 3 titles |
| CF/2AGR | Linguistics/Russian - 1 title |
| CF/2AHA | Linguistics/Ancient (Classical) Greek - 1 title |
| CF/2AJB | Linguistics/Baltic languages - 5 titles |
| CF/2AJKR | Linguistics/Armenian - 1 title |
| CF/2BM | Linguistics/Modern Indic languages - 1 title |
| CF/2BMB | Linguistics/Bengali - 1 title |
| CF/2BMD | Linguistics/Marathi - 1 title |
| CF/2BMS | Linguistics/Sinhalese - 1 title |
| CF/2BXF | Linguistics/Persian (Farsi) - 2 titles |
| CF/2C | Linguistics/Afro-Asiatic languages - 2 titles |
| CF/2CS | Linguistics/Semitic languages - 3 titles |
| CF/2CSJ | Linguistics/Hebrew - 3 titles |
| CF/2CSR | Linguistics/Arabic - 10 titles |
| CF/2FC | Linguistics/Finno-Ugric languages - 6 titles |
| CF/2FCL | Linguistics/Lappish (Sami) - 1 title |
| CF/2FCM | Linguistics/Hungarian (Magyar) - 1 title |
| CF/2FMC | Linguistics/Turkish - 1 title |
| CF/2FV | Linguistics/Mongolian - 1 title |
| CF/2GD | Linguistics/Sino-Tibetan languages - 4 titles |
| CF/2GDC | Linguistics/Chinese - 18 titles |
| CF/2GDCC | Linguistics/Cantonese - 1 title |
| CF/2GDCM | Linguistics/Mandarin - 4 titles |
| CF/2GJ | Linguistics/Japanese - 8 titles |
| CF/2GK | Linguistics/Korean - 5 titles |
| CF/2GRH | Linguistics/Cambodian (Khmer) - 1 title |
| CF/2GRV | Linguistics/Vietnamese - 1 title |
| CF/2HCB | Linguistics/Bantu languages - 1 title |
| CF/2HN | Linguistics/Nilo-Saharan & Chari-Nile (Macrosudanic) languages - 1 title |
| CF/2JN | Linguistics/North & Central American indigenous languages - 2 titles |
| CF/2JNN | Linguistics/Uto-Aztecan languages - 3 titles |
| CF/2P | Linguistics/Oceanic & Austronesian languages - 4 titles |
| CF/2PG | Linguistics/Austronesian & Malayo-Polynesian languages - 1 title |
| CF/2Z | Linguistics/Other languages - 1 title |
| CF/2ZB | Linguistics/Basque - 1 title |
| CF/2ZP | Linguistics/Pidgins & Creoles - 22 titles |
| CF/2ZXP | Linguistics/Esperanto - 2 titles |
| CFA | Philosophy of language - 21 titles |
| CFB | Sociolinguistics - 158 titles |
| CFC | Literacy - 19 titles |
| CFD | Psycholinguistics - 60 titles |
| CFDC | Language acquisition - 170 titles |
| CFDM | Bilingualism & multilingualism - 108 titles |
| CFF | Historical & comparative linguistics - 187 titles |
| CFFD | Dialect, slang & jargon - 1 title |
| CFG | Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis - 822 titles |
| CFH | Phonetics, phonology - 32 titles |
| CFK | Grammar, syntax - 528 titles |
| CFLA | Writing systems, alphabets - 3 titles |
| CFM | Lexicography - 51 titles |
| CFP | Translation & interpretation - 327 titles |
| CFX | Computational linguistics - 53 titles |
| CFZ | Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication - 13 titles |
| CJ | Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) - 26 titles |
| CJA | Language teaching theory & methods - 93 titles |
| CJB | Language teaching & learning material & coursework - 1 title |
| CJBG | Grammar & vocabulary - 1 title |
| CJC | Language learning: specific skills - 1 title |
| CJCR | Reading skills - 4 titles |
| CJCW | Writing skills - 6 titles |
| DC | Poetry - 1 title |
| DCF | Poetry by individual poets - 1 title |
| DSA | Literary theory - 21 titles |
| DSB | Literary studies: general - 236 titles |
| DSBB | Literary studies: classical, early & medieval - 26 titles |
| DSBD | Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 - 1 title |
| DSBH | Literary studies: from c 1900 - - 3 titles |
| DSBH5 | Literary studies: post-colonial literature - 1 title |
| DSC | Literary studies: poetry & poets - 4 titles |
| DSG | Literary studies: plays & playwrights - 1 title |
| DSGS | Shakespeare studies & criticism - 3 titles |
| DSK | Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers - 1 title |
| DSY | Children's literature studies: general - 15 titles |
| GTC | Communication studies - 18 titles |
| GTE | Semiotics / semiology - 2 titles |
| HBJF | Asian history - 1 title |
| HBJF1 | Middle Eastern history - 2 titles |
| HBJQ | History of other lands - 5 titles |
| HBLA | Ancient history: to c 500 CE - 6 titles |
| HBLA1 | Classical history / classical civilisation - 3 titles |
| HBLC1 | Medieval history - 1 title |
| HBLH | Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 - 5 titles |
| HBLW | 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 - 1 title |
| HBLX | 21st century history: from c 2000 - - 1 title |
| HBTD | Oral history - 1 title |
| HBTM | Maritime history - 1 title |
| HP | Philosophy - 233 titles |
| HPC | History of Western philosophy - 8 titles |
| HPCB | Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 - 9 titles |
| HPCD | Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 - 2 titles |
| HPJ | Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology - 1 title |
| HPK | Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge - 7 titles |
| HPL | Philosophy: logic - 15 titles |
| HPM | Philosophy of mind - 6 titles |
| HPN | Philosophy: aesthetics - 1 title |
| HPS | Social & political philosophy - 2 titles |
| HRAB | Philosophy of religion - 2 titles |
| HRCG | Biblical studies & exegesis - 2 titles |
| HRLM | Religious life & practice - 37 titles |
| JFC | Cultural studies - 2 titles |
| JFD | Media studies - 3 titles |
| JHM | Anthropology - 2 titles |
| JHMP | Physical anthropology & ethnography - 1 title |
| JM | Psychology - 38 titles |
| JMH | Social, group or collective psychology - 3 titles |
| JMJ | Occupational & industrial psychology - 6 titles |
| JMM | Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology - 4 titles |
| JMQ | Psychology: emotions - 5 titles |
| JMR | Cognition & cognitive psychology - 11 titles |
| JMRM | Memory - 1 title |
| JMRP | Perception - 3 titles |
| JMS | The self, ego, identity, personality - 3 titles |
| JMT | States of consciousness - 50 titles |
| JNFD | Literacy strategies - 1 title |
| JNT | Teaching skills & techniques - 1 title |
| JNZ | Study & learning skills: general - 1 title |
| JPSL | Geopolitics - 1 title |
| KJM | Management & management techniques - 25 titles |
| LAZ | Legal history - 3 titles |
| PDX | History of science - 4 titles |
| PSAJ | Evolution - 1 title |
| PSVP | Animal behaviour - 1 title |
| UFD | Word processing software - 1 title |
| UYQ | Artificial intelligence - 17 titles |
| UYQL | Natural language & machine translation - 1 title |
| UYZ | Human-computer interaction - 2 titles |
| WCF | Coins, banknotes, medals, seals (numismatics) - 1 title |
| YFB | General fiction (Children's/YA) - 1 title |