Library and publishing resources
Library catalogues
- Bibliotheque Nationale de France
- The British Library Public Catalogue - this service will allow you to find out what material is held in the major Reference and Document Supply collections of the British Library.
- British Library Current Serials Received - this service allows you to search the DSC's Current Serials Received file.
- British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
- British Library Newspaper Library
- COPAC - a new national Online Public Access Catalogue, providing unified access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
- HERO list of online library catalogues in Britain and Ireland - in order of institution name. also includes research bodies.
- Libdex - a worldwide directory of library homepages and web-based OPACs.
- Melvyl - From the University of California. The following databases are available for general public access on the Internet: The University of California Union Catalog and the California Academic Libraries List of Serials (CALLS)
- SUNCAT - UK Serials Union Catalogue to help you locate journals held in the UK. The catalogue contains information on both print and electronic serials, including journals, periodicals, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, proceedings, annual reports and other publications of a continuing nature.
- UK Library Catalogues - through NISS.
- UNESCO Libraries Portal: Libraries.
- webCATS: Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web - this resource will link you to all library on-line public-access catalogues which have World Wide Web interfaces.
- World List of Departments and Schools of Information Studies, Information Management, Information Systems, etc.
Online booksellers
- See also the HERO list of Bookshops and Publishers
- AddALL
- Advanced Book Exchange (ABE)
- Alibris
- Amazon.co.uk - the British subsidiary of Amazon.com.
- Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
- Barnes and Noble
- Bibliofind
- Blackwell's Online Bookshop
- BOL
- Book Browse
- The Book Place
- BookFinder
- Bookstore
- Borders.com
- Computer Manuals Online Bookstore
- Countrybookstore.co.uk
- Internet Book Shop - WH Smith online's bookshop.
- Just Books
- NHBS Mailorder Bookstore - online catalogue of environment-related books, CD-ROMs and other materials.
- Waterstone's Online
Publishers
- See also the HERO list of Bookshops and Publishers
This is a selection of publishers' websites. Most sites include information about the publishing company and a catalogue of the titles they publish. Many book publishers also offer an online ordering service.
The websites of journal publishers often contain tables of contents (ToCs) and abstracts for the titles they publish. They may also provide an alerting service which will automatically email you with new tables of content from your selected journals. Access to the full text of journal articles is usually restricted or charged for. Look at our Electronic journals information to find out which journals you have access to.
Links to a selection of learned societies and other organisations which often publish their own material are provided on our Subject resources pages.
- Academic Press
- Addison Wesley Longman
- Akademie Verlag
- Annual Reviews
- Arnold
- Ashgate
- Aslib
- Association of American University Presses - search or browse their online catalogue, which lists book and journal titles from over 60 member presses.
- Bell & Howell
- Berg Publishers
- Berghahn Books
- BIOSIS
- Blackwell Publishers
- Blackwell Science
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- BMJ Publishing
- Brill
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- CAB International
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- Cambridge International Science Publishing
- Cambridge University Press
- Carfax - see Taylor and Francis
- Carnegie Publishing
- Chadwyck-Healey
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Churchill Livingstone
- Company of Biologists
- CRC Press
- Current Science
- Dun and Bradstreet
- Edinburgh University Press
- EDP Sciences
- Educational Heretics Press
- Edward Elgar
- Elsevier Science - and its imprints Elsevier, Pergamon, North-Holland and Excerpta Medica.
- The Feminist Press
- Faber and Faber
- Fourth Estate
- Frank Cass (Now Routledge)
- Free Press
- Gordon and Breach
- Hanley and Belfus
- Harcourt Brace
- HarperCollins
- The Haworth Press
- Heinemann
- HMSO - see also The Stationery Office.
- Hodder & Stoughton
- ISI
- JAI Press
- Jessica Kingsley
- Karger
- Kingston Press
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Lawrence Erlbaum
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Longman
- Macmillan
- Macmillan Computer Publishing
- Mark Allen Publishing
- MCB University Press (Now Emerald)
- McGraw-Hill
- Mecklermedia's iWorld
- MIT Press
- Multilingual Matters
- Munksgaard
- National Academy Press - publishers for the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.
- The Office for National Statistics
- Online Inc.
- Open University Press
- Open University Worldwide Ltd
- Ordnance Survey
- O'Reilly
- Ovid Technologies
- Oxbow Books
- Oxfam Publishing
- Oxford University Press
- Palgrave
- Pearson Publishing
- Penguin UK
- Pickering & Chatto
- Pion
- Pluto Press
- Polity
- Portland Press - the publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society.
- Prentice Hall
- Primary Source Media
- Psychology Press - see Taylor and Francis
- Random House
- Reed Business Information
- Routledge - see Taylor and Francis
- RSM Press - the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Medicine.
- Sage Publications
- St Martin's Press
- Sessions of York
- SilverPlatter
- Information on the Academic Reference Centre based at UCL is available. Ask your Academic Liaison Librarian for information on Library subscriptions.
- Simon & Schuster
- Springer
- The Stationery Office
- The UK Offical Documents site provides links to official documents from the UK Parliament, Her Majesty's Stationery Office and The Stationery Office.
- Symposium Books
- Taylor and Francis
- Thames and Hudson
- Thomson Science & Professional - see Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Transaction Publishers
- Trentham Books
- Triangle Journals
- UNESCO
- University Microfilms International (UMI)
- Virago
- Walter de Gruyter
- Westview Press
- White Horse Press
- Whurr
- Wiley
- The Women's Press
- Zed Books
Directories of publishers
- AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
- Books for Academics
- Northern Lights Publishers' Catalogues
- University Press Catalogues
- WWW Virtual Library: Publishers
- Publisher Lookup UK
