Books & publishing
This page provides links to sources for locating information about publications and publishers. It does not aim to provide links to the full text of publications. A large number of full text services are available from the Ejournals and Ebooks section, follow the links on the left.
Although some services listed on this page may be of value during a literature search be sure not to neglect the bibliographic services available in the Databases section. These are often subject specific and as such a more relevant and accurate source for references.
| Collections of publisher & bookseller Web services | |
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| Acqweb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors | Comprehensive alphabetical list of publishers and booksellers worldwide. Updated regularly. U.S.A. |
| Association of American University Presses | Includes joint online catalogue of American university presses. U.S.A. |
| Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers | Non-profit making members involved in professional, STM and humanities publishing of books and journals |
| Best Book Buys | Concurrently searches a number of online book providers such as Amazon and bol.com and compares prices |
| Best-Book-Price.co.uk | Price search of UK online book providers |
| Book Brain | Price search of UK online bookshops |
| BookFinder | Price search of online bookshops |
| The Bookseller | Daily news and comment about the book industry |
| The Clique | Main booktrade internet and computer service. Second-hand books, book pricing information, bookfairs, U.K. booktrade associations and magazines, U.K. libraries |
| Digital Librarian | Book collecting and book history |
| International Publishers Association | Includes links to IPA members web sites. Alphabetical list of publishers and booksellers. U.K. |
| Publishers' Catalogues Home Page | Updated regularly. Canada |
| PubList | The Internet directory of publications |
| University of Exeter "Books for Academics" | Links publishers' online catalogues to the academic community. Indexed by subject categories |
| Individual publisher Web services | |
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| American Chemical Society | Details of books, journals, electronic publications |
| American Mathematical Society | Details of books, journals, electronic publications. Includes online ordering and customer service |
| Barnes and Noble | Online bookshop, includes used and out of print books |
| BBC | Includes searchable online catalogues of books, videos, etc. |
| BioMed Central | Online publishers of research articles in all areas of biomedical research |
| Blackwell Publishers | Includes searchable catalogue. Services for customers include online ordering |
| Brepols | Includes searchable catalogue |
| BSI (British Standards Institution) | Includes electronic Standards catalogue |
| Cambridge University Press | Includes full online catalogue, ordering service, contact addresses |
| Directgov | Includes links to the publications of U.K. government departments and agencies |
| Elsevier Science | Includes searchable online catalogue |
| European Commission Representation in the U.K. | Includes catalogue of free publications available in the U.K. and other useful information |
| Gale | Includes searchable catalogue |
| Harvard University Press | Includes full online catalogue and ordering service |
| HSE Bookfinder | A catalogue of all Health and Safety Executive publications |
| IDC | Publishers of microform and electronic material. Includes searchable online catalogue |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology | Includes online catalogues |
| Institute of Physics | Includes searchable online catalogue |
| Kluwer | Now part of Springer. Includes searchable online catalogue |
| Longman | Now part of Pearson Education. Includes searchable catalogue |
| Macmillan | Includes full online catalogue and ordering service |
| Manchester University Press | Includes searchable back-list, subject catalogues, and new book details |
| Matrix Editions | Publisher of maths books |
| MIT Press | Includes full online catalogue |
| Open University | Includes searchable online catalogue |
| Oxford University Press | Includes full online catalogue and ordering service |
| Prentice-Hall | Now part of Pearson Education. Includes searchable online catalogue |
| Primary Source Media | Publishers of microform and electronic material. Includes full online catalogue |
| ProQuest Information and Learning | Publishers of microform material. Includes full online catalogue |
| Routledge | Includes full online catalogue and ordering service |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | Includes searchable online catalogue |
| Saur Verlag | Includes searchable online catalogue; ordering services |
| Simon and Schuster | Includes full online catalogue |
| Springer | Details of books on a range of subjects |
| TSO | Publisher of U.K. Official Publications. |
| Wiley | Includes searchable online catalogue. |
| Yale University Press | Includes full online catalogue |
| Individual bookseller Web services & other book-related links | |
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| Amazon Bookstore (U.K.) | Includes facilities for searching, browsing and ordering |
| Amazon Bookstore (U.S.A.) | Includes facilities for searching, browsing and ordering |
| Barnes and Noble | Includes searchable online catalogue |
| Bertram Library Services | Formerly Cypher. Large U.K. library supplier |
| Biblion | Largest Internet bookshop in Russia |
| Blackwell's On-line Bookshop | Includes facilities for searching, browsing and ordering |
| Bloomsbury Magazine | Online magazine including original articles, news of recent books and book reviews |
| Bookfinder General | Will search for and supply difficult-to-obtain titles |
| Bookseller | Includes links to 250 book-related sites, and 2-year archive of the Bookseller |
| Books for Academics | From the University of Exeter |
| Bookshop Italia | Milan-based joint internet venture between Messaggerie Libri and Editrice Bibliografica. Contains catalogues of both Messaggerie and the U.K.x Internet Bookshop In Italian |
| BooksOnline | "Internet book retaining venture" comprising a number of online book clubs relating to a variety of subject areas |
| BookWire | A comprehensive source for book information |
| Coutts | Library suppliers with sophisticated online book and ordering information which is currently password-controlled. |
| Houtschild | Includes links to major Dutch, German and other publishers |
| Iberbook | Spanish suppliers of bibliographical material for institutional and scientific libraries |
| Librairie Delon-Biblio | French online bookshop |
| NHBS Environment Bookstore | Features a database of 40,000 titles |
| PubEasy.com | Includes records from Bowker, Whitaker and Vista. Gives bibliographical & price information, availability and ordering |
| Sous La Lampe | Includes searchable online catalogue |
| Student Book World | Discounted academic textbooks |
| Talking Book Shop | UK audiobook and language specialist |
| Waterstone's | National book retailer |
| Out-of-Print books | |
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| abebooks | Requires free ID. Can save up to 100 wants |
| Alibris | Independent booksellers including collector/antiquarian material |
| Bibliofind | Search for rare, used, and out-of-print books. |
| Biblioz | Out of print books from thousands of different book sellers world wide |
| Bookfinder.com | Can search for new, used or out-of-print books |
| The Clique | Includes link to free email group U.K.BOOKS |
| Mary Ward Books | Independent online bookstore specialising in second hand, out-of-print and used books |
| SLAM | French Antiquarian Booksellers Association, with online catalogues, search abilities, directory of book dealers and a book collectors guide, with technical terms used by French booksellers |
| Used book search | Secondhand, rare and out of print books |