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  • Online marketplace for new, used, rare, and out-of-print books. Includes profiles of thousands of independent book dealers worldwide.
  • Contains links to resources used to determine the existence, imprint and other bibliographic information needed to order specific titles, such as library catalogs, bibliographic services and print lists.
  • A guide to databases and websites for locating addresses and directories
  • Registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations.
  • Contains links to information about publications currently indexed in the Alternative Press Index and members of the Independent Press Association. Includes updated subscription information, e-mail addresses and links to home pages.
  • Online bookstore of rare, used, and out-of-print books.
  • Online book dealer of new, rare, and out-of-print books.
  • New and used books locator; includes SetMaker service to finish incomplete multi-volume sets.
  • Online market for independent booksellers, and website of the E-commerce element of the American Booksellers Association's Book Sense program.
  • Provides information about the book industry: industry news, feature articles, reviews, original fictions, guides to literary events, author interviews, annotated links to book-related sites, and information on current bestsellers.
  • Self-description: "Unlike many Internet resources, this bibliography aims to incorporate both traditional style printed works and on-line resources.[...] Religious culture in China is taken by me to refer to those activities (includin g writing) in sinitic (or sinitic influenced) culture that give meaning to birth, disease, life and death, or that provide explanations and solutions to all kinds of problems by invoking an extra-human referent …
  • Prepared for faculty to use to learn Copyright basics, especially in the distance learning context.
  • Provides information on Internet book industry resources, including e-books, audio books, and related hardware. Includes comparison shopping search.
  • The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. Search by title or subject classification.
  • Use this directory to locate literature from thousands of conferences, meetings and symposia. Includes author and paper title information in Science/Technology, Medical/Life Sciences, and Social Sciences/Humanities.
  • Directory of antiquarian booksellers.
  • GetCITED facilitates the dissemination and discussion of academic research by way of a database of over 3 million publications and a discussion forum. Comments made in the discussion forum have links to publications and researchers within the database. Another feature of this site is the ability to enter in citation details and search for all publication types, including book chapters, papers, dissertations, and unpublished manuscripts such …
  • GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. Use GPO Access to search or browse official, full-text information from the three …
  • Offers a quick search of in-print and just-out-of-print books available at online bookstores in the U.S. and occasionally elsewhere. Search results are independent of publisher funding and promotional material. Results show shipping and can be sorted from fastest to slowest availability (from order placed through arrival at your doorstep), or lowest to highest price.
  • Offers searchable, free online access to selected directories published by Oxbridge, including the Standard periodical directory, Oxbridge directory of newsletters, National directory of catalogs, National directory of magazines, National directory of mailing lists, and the National directory of advertising.
  • Contains news, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more.
  • Online directory of newsletters covering business, investments, health, advertising, marketing and other topics.
  • Provides links to examples of citation styles including For MLA, Chicago, APA, CBE, and other styles this resource covers how to cite a World Wide Web site, an Email message,Web discussion forum postings, Listserv messages, Newsgroup messages, Real-time communicationa, and Telnet, FTP, and gopher sites .
  • Provides information for the publishing community: publishers, authors, editors, web masters, and freelancers.
  • Searchable database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals. Find free in-depth information on familiar and hard-to-find publications from around the world, representing thousands of topics.
  • This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published between 1990 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet.
  • Contains information on the scholarly publications system and KU initiatives in this area, including a link to KU scholar works.
  • Self description: "A non-profit organization, established in 1996, to promote the study and preservation of cultures and art on Inner Asia and the Silk Road. The Silkroad Foundation provides resources, information, and interactive exchange toward the pursuit of educating the Bay Area community about Inner Asia and the Silk Road."
  • Online marketplace for new and used textbooks.
  • Contains links to subscriptions for free trade publications.
  • The WATCH File (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) is a database containing primarily the names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists whose archives are housed, in whole or in part, in libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom. The objective in making the database available is to provide information to scholars about whom to contact for permission to publish text and …