BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
This section provides links to library catalogues and other sources of information about books, periodicals, theses, publishing and the book trade.
Library catalogues
Many libraries' catalogues are now searchable over the internet. Below is a small selection of some of the most useful ones.
National and Copyright Libraries
- Austrian National Library
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- The British Library Public Catalogue: catalogue of printed materials, now expanded to include many previously separate catalogues, including newspapers.
- British Library Manuscripts Catalogue (MOLCAT): Catalogue of the MSS collections of the British Library
- British Library National Sound Archive Catalogue: Covers sound recordings held in the British Library
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Cambridge University Library
- Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- The European Library: information on Europe's national libraries
- Library of Congress
- National Library Catalogues Worldwide: includes links to all major national libraries' catalogues.
- National Library of Scotland
- National Library of Wales
Academic and other Libraries
- CATNYP: research collections of the New York Public Library
- CURL Opac (COPAC): a central online catalogues that gives access to the catalogues of large university research libraries in the UK.
- Goldsmiths College Library
- InforM25: allows combined searching of library catalogues belonging to the M25 consortium of academic libraries and includes a full subject directory.
- Karlsrhue virtual catalog: allows the searching of multiple catalogues from Germany, Austria, Sweden, and others worldwide.
- National Art Library
- HERO alphabetical list of OPACS in Higher Education
- University of London, Senate House Library
- The Wellcome Institute Library
- What's in London's libraries: allows combined searching of multiple London public library catalogues, museum collections and archives.
- Working Class Movement Library: The WCML is a national collection of the History of British and Irish radical and labour movements from the 1790's to the present.
Lists of libraries
- LibDex: this service gives access to library catalogues worldwide.
- Yahoo! list of libraries worldwide.
- UK Public Libraries Page: a list of public libraries on the web.
Indexes
The following sites give information about published articles and theses completed in British universities.
- British Humanities Index: an index to articles that have appeared in selected journals and newspapers.
- Index to Theses: an online version of Index to theses accepted for higher degrees in the universities of Great Britain and Ireland, covering the years 1970-1999.
- Historical Research for Higher Degrees in the UK: an online version of the Institute of Historical Research's publication, covering the years 1995-1998.
- TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of interest to classicists): tables of content of 160 journals and Festschriften searchable by keyword.
Periodicals
The internet contains much information relating to serials, both printed and electronic, and some electronic journals can be accessed freely. The following sites may be of particular use:
- BUBL electronic journal resources
- Electronic Journals Resource Directory
- The Internet Public Library Online Serials List: this site provides links to publishers' websites and to electronic journals sites, arranged by subject.
- The Internet Library of Early Journals: an electronic archive of a selection of 18th and 19th century journals.
- TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of interest to classicists): tables of contents of 160 journals and Festschriften searchable by keyword.
- University of London Union List of Serials
- Magazine stacks: tables of contents of historical journals, monographic series and occasional volumes in English and German. Compiled by English and German universities, including UCL.
Publishers
- University of Chicago Press list of American Association of University Presses publishers: list of American University Press publishers that are part of the American Association of University Presses. Hosted by the University of Chicago Press.
- The Bookseller - links to publishers' websites: links to the websites of publishers, provided by the online edition of the Bookseller magazine.
- List of publishers' catalogues by country.
- Oxford University Press
- Cambridge University Press
- TSO - The Stationery Office
Bookselling
- Alapage.com: French internet bookseller. Choose 'livres' from home page.
- Abebooks.co.uk: an internet bookseller specialising in rare books.
- Amazon.co.uk: Amazon.com's UK site. Click on 'books'.
- Antiquarian Booksellers' Association
- BibliOZ: online bookseller for out of print books.
- Bookfinder
- Buchkatalog.de: German internet bookshop.
- Casalini Libri: Italian internet bookseller.
- Celesa: Spanish books in print site. Click on 'English' for English translation.
- Dealtime: compares prices for books available for purchase over the Internet.
- Hatchards
- International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB)
- The Internet Bookshop: online bookseller.
- John Sandoe Books Ltd
MIscellaneous
- English Short Title Catalogue: The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries.
- Google Scholar
