Books

Locating Books Bibliographic Databases Books Full Text eBooks Books in Print Books out of Print & Second Hand Book Reviews Donating Books

Locating Books

• Check the ULRLS Catalogue
• For titles not found in the University of London Research Library Services use the Research Pro search page and tick the Union Catalogues box. (This will search across The British Library and the Research Libraries UK Catalogue (COPAC) catalogues and Inform 25 as one operation).

Bibliographic Databases

• Bibliografía Nacional Española Spanish National Bibliography on CDROM (1976 - 1997)
• Bibliographie Nationale Française French National Bibliography
• Brinkman's Dutch National Bibliography on CDROM Network
• British National Bibliography 1950-1995 on the CDROM Network,
• 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 on CDROM Network
• Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue
• Das Schweizer Buch Swiss National Bibliography online
• Worldcat (OCLC Union List)

See also the catalogues of National Libraries and InforM25 College and University library catalogues in the London (UK) area.

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
• 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
• 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
• Oxford Text Archive
• Project Gutenberg Home Page
• Project Gutenberg of Australia
• Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service
• Réseau francophone des bibliothèques nationales francophones
• Shakespeare in Quarto (Treasures in Full at the BL)
• Super-Enlightenment digital archive

Books in Print

For details of publishers, see Guardian Unlimited lists of publishers, Literary market place, 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 / Books for Academics / BookScan / Bookwire / eBooks / eBooks-in-Print.com (searchable database of electronic titles) / 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

Books Out of Print & Second Hand

Advanced Book Exchange (abebooks) / Alibris (includes classicforum) / Antiqbook / Bibliofind / Biblion, Antiquarian Books Online / Biblio.com / Bibliophile / Bibliology / Bibliopoly / Bloomsbury Book Auctions / Book Butler / Book Cooperative / Bookfinder (the book search engine) / Books and Book collecting / Golden Books /  ibooknet (Independent Booksellers Network) / Kessinger Publishing / Mary Ward Books / Private Presses of the UK / Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service / TomFolio.com, see also Fine Press Book Association /

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
• Yahoo Book Review Directory