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Humanities resources for research: Virtual
reference library (Page 1)
This is a listing of general reference sources
available on the world wide web, selected by British Library staff.
The focus is primarily on sources in English which have particular
reference to the United Kingdom; an indication is given if the source
has worldwide coverage. Most of the resources included are freely
available on the web; any subscription based sources included carry
the information 'Onsite access only'.
Abbreviations/acronyms
Almanacs
Archives
- A2A database
- To locate archives in English local repositories
- ArchiveGrid
- An important destination for searching through historical
documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives
around the world. Onsite access only.
- Archives Hub
- A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities
and colleges
- DANGO
(Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations)
- Provides information on the availability of records relating
to non-governmental organisations and pressure groups active
in the UK since 1945.
- Family
Records Centre
- The Family Records Centre has closed. The services formerly
offered by The National Archives at the Family Records Centre
(FRC), relating to census returns, wills and other sources,
are now available at The National Archives in Kew. See http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/.
For the services formerly offered by the General Register
Office at the FRC, relating to births, marriages, deaths,
adoptions and civil partnerships, see http://www.gro.gov.uk/.
- Internet archive
- The National Archives
(formerly Public Record Office)
- For information about the national archives
- National
Register of Archives
- To identify locations of private papers and manuscripts
in repositories in the UK
- Marxists Internet Archive
- Includes Marxist writers, history archive, subject archive,
reference writers and encyclopedia of Marxism.
- Record
Societies
- Repositories
of primary sources
- Links to over 5000 websites worldwide describing holdings
of primary sources for the research scholar.
- UK Web Archiving Consortium
- A consortium of six leading institutions, including the
British Library
is working collaboratively on a project for selective archiving
of UK websites
- UNESCO
Archives Portal
- For links to archives worldwide and related resources
Associations/organizations/societies
Awards/prizes/records
Biography
Bookselling/publishing
- Abebooks
- For secondhand, rare and out of print books
- AcqWeb's
directory of publishers and vendors
- International directory of publishers and vendors
- Addall
- Searches across databases for new, secondhand and rare books,
providing a price comparison facility
- Alibris
- For rare and out of print books
- Amazon UK
- For new and in print books
- Bestseller
lists 1900-1995
- To search twentieth century American bestsellers by decade
- Bibliofind
- US site with a claimed 20 million rare and used books, now
part of Amazon
- Bibliophile
- For fine press, rare and secondhand books
- Bibliopoly
- For rare and antiquarian books
- BibliOZ
- Specialising in secondhand and rare Australian, Pacific
and Commonwealth titles
- BookData
Online
- A bibliographic database containing records of in print,
forthcoming and out of print titles published in the UK, US,
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
- Onsite access only
- Bookfinder
- For new and secondhand titles
- Bookseller
links
- For UK publishers and booksellers
- Booksellers Association
- Gives access to a directory for publishers and a members
directory for booksellers
- FetchBook.Info
- New & Used books- compare 125 book stores, 60,000 sellers
- Global
books in print
- A database of bibliographical information on books currently
in print and forthcoming in the English language.
- Onsite access only
- Links to the British
book worldPublist
- For information on journal, magazine and periodical publishers
- Resources
for booksellers and book collectors
- For links to secondhand and rare book sites
- SetMaker
- For tracing missing volumes of sets
- TomFolio.com
- UK Book World
- For rare and out of print books
- World wide
publishers
- Virtual library, Communications & Media, E-journals,
Broadcasters,
- Selected Organizations
Calendars/days/time
Companies
Concordances
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