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Book Information
Books In Print - Reed Reference Publishing
Current
Updated Weekly.
Provides complete, publisherverified information on all U.S. books
in print. Includes more than 900,000 new or revised records each year and
covers scholarly, technical, popular, adult, juvenile, and reprint
titles. Also includes complete publisher information. FirstSearch
/ Search Guide
WorldCat™ Database (OCLC Union Catalog) -
OCLC 11th Century - Updated Daily.
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 39 million bibliographic
records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th
Century. Includes holdings information from the world's libraries.
FirstSearch
/ Search Guide
Booksellers:
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Abebooks.com the world's
largest online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books.
Abebooks connects those who buy books with those who sell them.
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Amazon.com Online bookstore
with over 12 million book and music items for sale or auction. Searchable
by Author, Title, Subject.
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Barnes and Noble Online
bookstore with over 8 million titles. Searchable by Author, Title, Subject.
Includes a searchable Out-of-Print section.
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Bibliofind Database
of 7 million out-of-print books. The Seven million old, used and rare books
are offered here for sale by three thousand booksellers around the world
make this the largest and possibly the most interesting bookselling site
on the Web. Searchable by Author, Title, Publisher.
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Alibris (Formerly Interloc).
Database and global computer network for locating used, rare, and hard-to-find
books. Database contains over 4 million out-of-print books, maps, autographs,
and ephemera.
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Publisher's Catalogs
Links to the catalogs of U.S. Publishers and University Presses and Foreign
Publishers.
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Textbooks.com
Buy college textbooks online. Offers used textbooks, new textbooks,
study guides and CDs. Also buys your textbooks in the textbook buyback
area.
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Follett New and used college
textbooks.
Book
Reviews
Reviews from various Newspapers and Online Sources:
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New York Times Books
Includes the complete Sunday Book Review, daily book related news and reviews,
a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews, bestseller
lists, and more. Registration required.
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New York Review of
Books Includes a complete, searchable index of the magazine's
contents from 1963 to the present plus the full text of all pieces published
in the Review since November 1996. Fees are charged for older material
in the Archives.
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Boston Globe:
Book Reviews
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Chicago Sun-Times
Books Reviews by book editor and author Henry Kisor.
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Chicago
Tribune Books
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Los Angeles
Times Book Review
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Arts & Letters DailyAn
updated report of news and reviews; covers philosophy, aesthetics, literature,
language, trends, breakthroughs, ideas, criticism, culture, history, art,
disputes, and gossip.
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Scitech Daily Review
Provides links to science and technology articles including Books and Media
Reviews, Features and Background articles, and Analysis and Opinion articles.
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London Review of Books
Online edition of a semi-monthly book review from England. Provides full
text articles, reviews, and letters to the editor and a review archive
back to 1997. Good source for reviews of British books and authors.
The Textbook League
Provides independent, expert appraisals of textbooks that publishers are
selling to schools right now. The Textbook League was established
in 1989 to support the creation and acceptance of sound schoolbooks. Their
chief activity is the publication of The Textbook Letter (or TTL),
a bimonthly bulletin that is mailed to subscribers throughout the United
States. Tables of contents are available on the web site.
Spanish
Language Books
Leer -
NISC
Current File
Updated Weekly
Provides access to a comprehensive and diverse selection of more than
one million Spanish-language books for sale, anywhere. Leer is compiled
and updated from publisher databases and the interfiled databases of book
dealers based in Latin America and Spanish-speaking communities worldwide.
New materials and contact information are added and revised every week.
Leer is an entirely new concept that should improve access to Spanish-language
books. Leer does not sell books: Instead, it puts you in touch with who
does and at what price. The database can be searched in Spanish or English
by title, author, subject, publisher, distributor, or age group for children's
books. WWW
French Language
Books
Bouquins.Net - Bouquins
Current File
Updated Weekly
The International Directory of the Book. Provides a French language
international search engine about books plus information on Old books and
booksellers, Arts of the book, Reading Associations, Editions, E-books,
Authors, The book on the NET, New books, and more. WWW
Journals
Serials
Directory - Ebsco Current
File Updated Quarterly
The Serials Directory, 14th Edition provides up-to-date, accurate bibliographic
information for more than 178,500 U.S. and international serials from over
85,000 publishers. Includes historical data for over 20,000 titles.
Publist:
The Internet Directory of Publications
Current Updated Monthly
PubList.com is the most comprehensive directory of information about
more than 150,000 publications and more than 8000 newspapers around the
world. PubList.com information comes from definitive sources such as Ulrich's™
International Periodicals Directory. It adds the timeliness and linking
capabilities of the Web. WWW
OCLC Union Lists of Periodicals Database
- OCLC Current
Updated 2/year
Includes more than 7 million listings linked to over 750,000 bibliographic
records in WorldCat. The listings provide local holdings information so
that users can search for locations of periodicals in their own and other
libraries. FirstSearch
/ Search Guide
Government
Documents
GPO Monthly Catalog - U. S. Gov't Printing
Office July 1976 - Updated Monthly
Records of items published by the GPO. Includes references to congressional
committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments,
and more. FirstSearch
/ Search Guide
/ Web
version 1994-
National
Technical Information Service (NTIS) -
1990-
Updated Daily
Searchable database containing references to 370,000 technical publications,
datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual material added to the NTIS collection
since 1990. WWW
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