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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

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Book Reviews
Reviews from various Newspapers and Online Sources: 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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