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AcqWeb: Directory of Publishers and Vendors
AcqWeb provides links to resources of interest to librarians with acquisitions or collection development responsibilities. The scope is international. Sites linked to include sources for verification of bibliographic information; email addresses and web pages for vendors and publishers of interest to librarians; associations and organizations; online journals and newsletters; archives for conferences; web reference resources; gateways to topical web sites; and links to search engines and subject classifications.
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Covers North American scholarship on East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
ABELL contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. Part of Literature Online (LION).
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)
Abstracts of current literature in modern art, photography and design.
ARTFL (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
A full-text retrieval database of classical French writings; users can create a dictionary and frequency count of words used in a text, trace origins of words or phrases back through the 17th century, etc. The database includes literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.
Bibliographie nationale francaise
French National Bibliography of books and serials, available via free access by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, describes books and serials published, printed or distributed in France through legal deposit. Website includes links to two titles: Bibliographie nationale francaise Livres and Publications en serie. These electronic bibliographies replace print versions discontinued in 2000.
Bibliography of British and Irish History
Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. It is the successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History, available online from 2002 to 2009.
A Bibliography of the History of The University of Iowa 1847-1997 (Revised Edition)
The electronic version of the print publication edited by Earl Rogers, this bibliography lists histories and selected contemporary accounts of The University of Iowa and many of its colleges, departments, and other programs.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Online version of the microfiche set Early American Imprints, 1639-1800. Resource for aspects of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, e.g., agriculture, auctions, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, and witchcraft.
English Short Title Catalogue
Contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. Includes the former Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) and the two print short-title catalogues covering 1475-1640 (Pollard and Redgrave) and 1641-1700 (Wing).
Grove Music: New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
Now called: Oxford Music Online
Guide to Gay and Lesbian Resources Bibliography Based upon the Collections of the University of Chicago
A classified bibliography based upon the collections of the University of Chicago.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
IBZ Online
Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ) The international bibliography of periodical literature covering all fields of knowledge, since 1896. Website is in English.
International Medieval Bibliography
International Medieval Bibliography covers the European Middle Ages (c450-1500). It provides over 300,000 entries from 4,500 periodicals and 5,000 miscellany volumes, published from and including 1967.
Iter : Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Latin American and Caribbean Bibliographic Databases
Mexico's Colima University and UNESCO have launched an online version of the LATINO project of bibliographic databases of Latin America and the Caribbean area. The portal gathers 123 databases with bibliographic descriptions from libraries of institutions in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela (Data from Spain also available). Topics range from agriculture and rural development to medical, scientific, and regional issues.
The Making of America, Cornell University
A digital library of primary sources in American social history, this site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
MIML: Musical Instruction and Musical Learning
MIML is a web-based bibliography on Musical Instruction and Musical Learning from 1450-1650. This bibliography is designed to cover the secondary literature on how music was taught and learned during the two-century period 1450 to 1650, elucidating aspects such as the institutions, traditions, and practices of musical pedagogy in the Early Modern Period.
Oxford Music Online
Includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and the Oxford Companion to Music.
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
The Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies covers the social sciences and humanities with topics as diverse as archaeology, economics, history, law, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, political science, religious studies, and much more. The database includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, manuscripts, and dissertations published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe. The Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies covers from 1986 to the present, with two to three updates per year.
SARDS 3
SARDS3 is an electronic database containing bibliographic references to South Asia research articles published in journals, collective volumes, conference proceedings, Festschriften, etc. SARDS3 is a joint undertaking of the Indological Chairs at the Universities of Bonn, Halle, Munich and the management of the University Library Halle. It aims at the retrospective filling of identifiable bibliographic gaps in the previous version SARDS2 (publications between 1797 and 2000). The focus of SARDS3 is on the humanities and social sciences. To date, over 67.000 citations are electronically searchable, covering the period from 1797 until 2009. All entries can be downloaded and printed.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Charles Bailey's bibliography is intended to provide an "understanding [of] scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks" and includes sections on Economic Issues, Electronic Books and Texts, Electronic Serials, General Works, Legal Issues, Library Issues, New Publishing Models, and Publisher
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
A bibliographic database providing detailed and authoritative information on journals and other serials published throughout the world. Ulrich's covers all subjects, and includes regularly and irregularly published serials that are available free or by paid subscription.
University of Iowa Libraries Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections
More than 10,000 letters or manuscript pieces, principally from the 19th and 20th centuries: agriculture, labor, U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace and his era, journalism, popular culture, politics (especially Iowa), railroads, vaudeville, movies and television, and the American Civil War. Major literary manuscript collections relate to British writers Leigh Hunt, Edmund Blunden, Angus Wilson, and Iris Murdoch, and to over 100 Iowa authors.