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Bibliographic Tools


American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ABSEES online contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books & chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications covering US and Canadian scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union.

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AMICUS Web
Search over 26 million full bibliographic records from 1,300 Canadian libraries including National Library of Canada (NLC) records describing books, magazines, government documents, theses, sound recordings, maps, etc.

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Archival Finding Aids (Library of Congress)
Provides links to all the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids for various collections at the Library of Congress.

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Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
ARC is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.

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Article Finder Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Find the full text for a specific journal title or article available at the Library of Congress.

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BEOnline Plus
Free Internet resources selected and annotated by The Library of Congress reference staff

  • Business and Economics Web sites
  • Humanities and other Social Sciences Web sites available from Alcove 9
  • International Resources Web sites available from Portals to the World
  • Science and Technology Web sites
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Bibliography of Books Printed in the German Speaking Countries from 1601 to 1700
Projekt VD 17 (Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum) contains bibliographic records for German titles and all titles which have been printed or published in the former German speaking countries.

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Bibliography of The Hebrew Book ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes over 120,000 titles and 13,500 authors covering 500 years of books published in the Hebrew language.

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Book History Online
The BHO database contains over 28,000 records for books and articles on the history of the printed book and libraries worldwide.

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BookPLUS ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Catalog containing bibliographic information for nearly 2 million books published in Japan.

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Books in Print ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Global Books in Print contains over 5 million bibliographic records for in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audiobooks, and videos published in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and the United States.

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Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
CISTI includes published information from around the world in all areas of physical and life sciences, engineering, technology and health sciences.

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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
The Catalog of United States Government Publications maintained by the GPO provides an index to print and electronic publications created by Federal agencies.

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ClassWeb ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Find LC Subject Headings (LCSH) in your research area and use them to search the Library of Congress catalog.

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COPAC Union Catalog
COPAC is a union catalogue of more than 30 million records from major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.

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Corps Of Engineers Library Information Online
CELIO is the database / electronic catalog representing the collections of all the libraries within the Army Corps of Engineers located throughout the United States.

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Cybrary: National Library Catalogues Worldwide
This Web site lists national library catalogs alphabetically by country and also provides hyperlinks to national libraries.

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Deutsche Bibliothek ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains records of monographs, periodicals, microforms, dissertations, visual materials, maps, printed and recorded music, and electronic publications from the National Library of Germany.

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Digital Dissertations ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with coverage from 1861 to the present.

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Early American Imprints, Series I Evans 1639-1800 ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full-text of more than 36,000 printed works covering American history and literature thru the colonial period up to the eighteenth century.

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European Commission Libraries Catalogue
ECLAS is a bibliographic database consisting of 350,000 completed catalogue records in the domain of European affairs; about 7,000 new records are added annually.

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European Library
The European Library portal provides bibliographic access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe.

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Gale Directory of Databases ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Profiles thousands of databases available worldwide in a variety of formats.

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GBV Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
GBV includes the International Bibliography of Periodical Literature covering all subject areas from around the world in German, French and English.

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Global Books in Print ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains over 5 million bibliographic records for in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audiobooks, and videos published in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and the US Global BIP includes more than 600,000 full-text reviews from material published since1985, as well as 7,000 author biographies, over 300 award listings, and title availability from over 20 major suppliers.

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GPO Monthly Catalog Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers all types of US government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.

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Index to Theses ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains a comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.

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Index Translationum
The Index Translationum, maintained by UNESCO, is an international bibliography of books translated in the world.

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ISSN Online Database ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) is an eight-digit number which identifies periodical publications as such, including electronic serials.

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LIBRIS
Union catalog of books, theses, journals, music, and other materials held by Swedish academic and research libraries.

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LIBROS EN VENTA Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Temporarily Unavailable.

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National Library of Australia Catalogue
A leading resource of materials relating to Australia and Australians; this database also holds an extensive collection of Asian materials.

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National Library of Medicine Catalog
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), one of the National Institutes of Health, is the world's largest research library for the health sciences.

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Open Worldcat
Contains the collective records of books, periodicals, maps, scores, films, recordings, websites, and other materials cataloged by over 41,000 member libraries.

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Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Citations and abstracts of over 19,000 journal articles, books, manuscripts, and dissertations published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe.

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Russian Governmental Publications ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides monitoring of the constantly evolving events in the Russian parliament, including stenographic records of Duma hearings, draft laws, vote results, official resolutions and decrees.

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Russian Information Library Consortium
RILC is a distributed joint catalogue providing access to the bibliographic and digital resources of five Russian libraries: M I Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature (VGBIL), Moscow State University Academic Library (Lomonosov), National Library of Russia (NLR), Parliamentary Library (PL), and the Russian State Library (RSL).

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Russian National Bibliography ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps from 21,500 publishers.

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Scottish Bibliographies Online
Scotland’s national bibliography brings together over 70,000 records of books, periodicals and major articles of Scottish interest published all over the world.

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Studies in Bibliography
Presents a wide range of full text scholarly articles on bibliography, textual criticism, printing history, and book and manuscript study.

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Sudoc Catalogue
The union catalog of the Système universitaire de documentation contains bibliographic information on all types of documents held by French academic libraries.

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The Swiss Book : Swiss National Bibliography
This bibliography lists all Swiss publications on all mediums: books, maps, music scores, electronic medias and multimedia, periodicals, newspapers, annual publications and series.

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Ulrichs Periodicals Directory Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Comprehensive global serials reference source on more than a quarter of a million periodicals and serials published in the United States and throughout the world.

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WHOLIS : World Health Organization Library Database
WHOLIS indexes all WHO publications from 1948 onwards and articles from WHO-produced journals and technical documents from 1985 to the present.

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WorldCat Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The OCLC Online Union Catalog contains the collective records of books, periodicals, maps, scores, films, recordings, websites, and other materials cataloged by over 41,000 OCLC member libraries.

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ZDB
Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB) contains more than 1 million bibliographic records of serials from the 16th century onwards, from all countries, in all languages, held in 4,000 German (and some foreign) libraries.

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