Library and publishing resources
- 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.
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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.
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