Books
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Locating Books
To locate books please use the Senate House Libraries Catalogue
For titles not found in Senate House Libraries try the Research Libraries UK Catalogue (COPAC) catalogues and Inform 25, or use the Research Pro search page and tick the library catalogue boxes. (This will search across both services as one operation).
Bibliographic Databases
- Bibliografía Nacional Española Spanish National Bibliography
- Bibliographie Nationale Française French National Bibliography
- Brinkman's Dutch National Bibliography on CD-ROM Network
- British National Bibliography (1950- )
- Deutsche Nationalbibliographie German National Bibliography
- ECCO Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- EEBO
Early English Books Online
- ESTC the English Short Title Catalogue coverage is from the beginnings of print to 1800
- Hand Press Books records for European printing of the hand-press period (c1455-1830)
- Illustrated Incunabula Short Title Catalogue
- Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue
- Das Schweizer
Buch Swiss National Bibliography online

- Worldcat (OCLC Union List)
Books Full Text Online
- Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts
- Bartleby's Electronic Reference Shelf (Colombia Encyclopedia etc.)
- Bibliomania
- BiblioVault
- Caxton's Chaucer (Treasures in Full at the BL)
- Center for Retrospective Digitization in Goettingen
- ClassicReader.com
- dmoz: Digital Libraries
- Digital Book Index
- Digital Collections (University of Wisconsin)
- Digital Text Collections (Virginia University)
- Directory of Digitized Collections
- EEBO
Early English Books Online
and Text Creation Partnership - eBooks
- Eighteenth Century E-Texts
- Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
- UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Formerly eScholarship Editions)
- EServer.org
- European Digital Library
- EU Bookshop Digital Library
- The Free Library
- Google Books
- Gutenberg Bible at Goettingen
- Gutenberg Bible at the British Library
- Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center, University of Texas
- HathiTrust
- Humanities Text Initiative
- Internet Public Library
- Internet Text Archive
- Library of Economics and Liberty
- LION Literature Online
- Mbooks University of Michigan digitized collections
- MyiLibrary
- National Academies Press
- New Zealand Digital Library
- Online Books Page
- Open Library
- Oxford Text Archive
- Project Gutenberg Home Page
- Project Gutenberg of Australia
- Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service
- Réseau Francophone Numérique
- Shakespeare in Quarto (Treasures in Full at the BL)
- Super-Enlightenment digital archive
Books in Print
For details of publishers, see Guardian lists of publishers, Literary market place (please register yourself or ask staff to log you on) , Publishers' catalogues and Publishers' websites (list of academic publishers complied by University of Essex).
Amazon (UK) / Amazon (USA) / Barnes and Noble / Bol.com / BookBrain (UK online bookshops) / Books Direct / BookScan / Bookwire / German Books in Print / Harrassowitz / Ibero-American Booksellers/publishers / isbn.nu (comparision of new and second hand books) / London Review of Books Bookshop / 123PriceCheck (price comparisons) / Postscript Books / Read Ireland Bookstore / OECD Online Bookshop / RedDot Books / Waterstone's Bookshop / WHSmith
Out of Print & Second Hand Books
Advanced Book Exchange (abebooks) / Alibris (includes classicforum) / Antiqbook / Biblion - Antiquarian Books Online / Biblio.com / Bibliophile / Bibliopoly / Bloomsbury Book Auctions / Book Butler / Bookfinder (the book search engine) / Books and Book collecting / Fine Press Book Association / Golden Books / ibooknet (Independent Booksellers Network) / Kessinger Publishing / Mary Ward Books / Private Presses of the UK / Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service / TomFolio.com
Book Reviews
- AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
- Atlantic Online
- Book review digest
- Book review index
- Boston Book Review
- H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Index to book reviews in the humanities
- London Review of Books website and Senate House Library holdings
- New York Review of Books website and Senate House Library holdings
- New York Times Book Review or New York Times Books
- Periodicals Index Online (Within "Article search", select "Book reviews" in the "Search options" box)
- Proquest Newspapers
- Spectator
- Times Literary Supplement website and holdings


