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In-print resources

Books in Print --> includes listings of In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos

Blackwell's North America's Collection Manager --> Database of bibliographic information for a selection of over 500,000 books published in the US and Britain over the last 4 years. You may search for a book under the "Search for a Title" feature. The index searches tables of contents if you so specify, so that one can search, for instance, for the author of an essay in a collection of essays.

AcqWeb's In Print and Price Listing Resources --> Excellent compendium of world book resources

AMAZON

Barnes & Noble

The Internet Bookshop --> UK based source for 2 million UK & US titles

Blackwell's Oxford --> "Academic Booksellers to the World"

Harrassowitz Verlag --> Large inventory of books in German

alapage.com --> 400,000 titles mostly French

BoekNet --> Netherlands Source

WESS - Iberian Studies --> Guide to Spanish & Portugese Book Sources

Casalini libri --> Italian bibliography online

Dissertation Abstracts

Papers First --> Index of post-1992 conference papers and their sources

Proceedings First -->Index of published conference proceedings ; last three years plus current year

Index to US Government Publications

Large databases of bibliographic citations

WORLDCAT --> OCLC Union Catalog

Library of Congress Online Catalog

AcqWeb's Library Catalogs and Bibliographic Utilities List

Academic publishers and university presses

AcqWeb's List of Publishers and Book Vendors

Out-of-print resources

AcqWeb's O/P, Rare, and Antiquarian Agents