Acquisitions, Serials, and Collection Development:
Publishers' Catalogs
[ General Resources
| Individual Publishers' Catalogs | Magazine
and Newspaper Catalogs | Non-print Catalogs | Rare and Out-of-print Catalogs ]
TITLE: |
AAUP
Online Catalog and Bookstore |
DESCRIPTION: |
The Association of American University Presses Catalog and
Bookstore contains fully searchable bibliographic data and descriptive text of books and
journals from more than fifty scholarly publishers. Catalog can be searched by author,
title, standard Library of Congress subject keywords, boolean expressions are available,
as well as limiting searches to specific subject areas based on the Library of Congress
subject classifications. The catalog offers the option of following a link to a customized
order form that can be downloaded or printed out and then mailed or faxed to the
appropriate press. If the link does not appear at the bottom of the text, it means the
book is either no longer in print, not yet listed by the publisher, or an order form is
not available from the publisher. The latest information regarding publishers?addresses
and phone numbers, subscription prices, single issues, back issues, and agency discounts
are also included. |
KEYWORDS: |
university press catalogs,
american, usa |
TITLE: |
ABAA
Booknet |
DESCRIPTION: |
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
(ABAA-booknet) specializes in rare and antiquarian books, maps, and prints. Out-of-print
books may also be found here. |
E-MAIL: |
booknet@rmharris.com |
KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, rare books |
TITLE: |
Amazon.co.uk |
DESCRIPTION: |
Contains a searchable database of 1.5 million UK titles. |
KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, united kingdom |
TITLE: |
Amazon.com
Books |
DESCRIPTION: |
A site for searching million titles (including in print and
out-of-print materials), buying items online, and accessing book reviews resources. |
KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, book reviews |
TITLE: |
Best Big On-line Bookstores |
DESCRIPTION: |
Offers "fine old books and a traditional book search
capability, a list of best selling book titles to choose from, {and help users to} find
book publishers, book reviews and libraries on-line."--Title screen. The lists of
online US and Canadian bookstores, music stores, foreign books and antiquarian books are
excellent sources to locate books on the Internet. Book reviews are also available. |
KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, book reviews, bookstores, rare books |
TITLE: |
BookFinder.com |
CREATOR: |
Chatterjee, Anirvan. |
DESCRIPTION: |
Formerly MX BookFinder, "this is a book shopping search
engine that scans bookseller databases to find new, used, rare, and out of print
books."--Title screen. Quite amazing how fast and well organized for the searching
results. |
E-MAIL: |
Anirvan Chatterjee, feedback@bookfinder.com |
KEYWORDS: |
online bookstores, catalogs |
TITLE: |
Bowker's Books In Print |
DESCRIPTION: |
A current, comprehensive, continuously updated source of information on virtually
the entire U.S. book publishing output. The database includes scholarly, popular, adult,
juvenile, reprinted, and all other types of books, covering all subjects. Complete bibliographic, subject classification and ordering
information is provided. Paid subscription is required to search the database and view information for selected titles. |
E-MAIL: |
bip.feedback@bowker.com |
KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, books in print |
TITLE: |
Chegg Textbook Rentals |
DESCRIPTION: |
Rent or buy used textbooks online from Chegg and save over $500 a year in
education costs. Textbooks are also available in digital or "eTextbook"
format. |
KEYWORDS: |
rent textbooks, textbook rental, used textbooks, college textbooks |
TITLE: |
International League of Antiquarian
Booksellers |
DESCRIPTION: |
"An organisation that encompasses national associations
of antiquarian booksellers around the world. It speaks for twenty-one nations and two
thousand leading booksellers."--Title screen. The site provides links to the
associations around the world. Many of them list the membership directory, organization
information. Some have links to rare and out-of-print catalogs. |
E-MAIL: |
info@ilab-lila.com |
KEYWORDS: |
rare books, out-of-print books, antiquarian booksellers,
united states, international |
TITLE: |
The Internet Bookshop |
DESCRIPTION: |
One of the world's largest online book retailers selling UK
and US books. It has "a database of close to a million books". |
KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, internet bookshop, united kingdom,
united states |
TITLE: |
MediaFinder |
DESCRIPTION: |
A web site with over 95,000 searchable listings of US and
international publications in all kinds of format. It contains magazines, catalogs,
newsletters, newspapers, directories, etc. |
CONTACT: |
webmaster@mediafinder.com |
KEYWORDS: |
catalogs |
TITLE: |
Micromedia
Ltd. |
DESCRIPTION: |
Claims to be the premier provider of information from
Canadian sources, both in Canada and in the global market. It's Lists and catalogues
section contains CD-ROM Catalogue, Serials Catalogue, Current News & Periodicals
Products, Titles List, Curriculum Guides Catalogue, Canadian Education Thesaurus. |
KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, canada |
TITLE: |
Powell's Books |
DESCRIPTION: |
Quoted as "one of the best bookstores in the
English-speaking world."--Title screen. It contains all kinds of subjects and is
categorized into Recommended Titles, Best Sellers, Rare Books, New Arrivals, Signed
Editions, etc. |
KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs |
TITLE: |
priceminister |
DESCRIPTION: |
a website
allowing users to buy and sell their books securely online. |
KEYWORDS: |
Bookstore,
United Kingdom |
TITLE: |
TitleNet |
DESCRIPTION: |
A commercial area on the Internet created by Inforonics for
publishers to present information about their products and services, and for users to
request further information from publishers. TitleNet is a service paid for by
participating publishers. Some publishers provide table of contents or abstracts
information for the publications. Most entries include information on pricing, ordering,
latest releases, and supplements. There is also a section for small press publishers
searchable by author, title, keywords, etc. |
E-MAIL: |
Robin Humes, rbh@infor.com;
Stephen Mills, sjm@infor.com |
KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs |
TITLE: |
Varsitybooks.com |
DESCRIPTION: |
A searchable and comprehensive catalog for college and
university textbooks browsable by subject areas. |
E-MAIL: |
feedback@varsitybooks.com |
KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, textbooks, colleges, universities |
TITLE: |
The Whole Web Book Search |
DESCRIPTION: |
A service for locating over 20,000,000 books, rare, used, and
antiquarian book dealers, and information and guidelines for book preservation and
appraising book values. |
KEYWORDS: |
publishers' catalogs, new books, out-of-print books, rare
books, book appraisal, preservation |
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