Electronic Libraries

Africa

African Virtual University

Arica Research Central
A gateway to the archives, libraries and museums with important collections of African primary sources.

Algeria

Université d'Alger | Université de Mostaganem

Angola

BOUCAN - Biblioteca Universidade Católica de Angola

Botswana

University of Botswana

Egypt

Egyptian Libraries Network | Ain Shams University | American University in Cairo | Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria)

Ghana

University of Ghana (Accra)

Kenya

Kenya National Library Service (Nairobi)

Marocco

Al Akhawayn University (Ifrane)

Mauritius

University of Mauritius Library

Namibia

National Library of Namibia (Windhoek) | University of Namibia (Windhoek)

Nigeria

National Library of Nigeria (Abuja)

Oman

Sultan Qaboos University

Senegal

Universitaité de Dakar
At the Université Chelkh Anta Diop

South Africa

National Library of Sout Africa | Potchefstroom University | Rand Afrikaans University (Johannesburg) | Rhodes University (Grahamstown) | Stellenbosch University | University of Cape Town | University of the Free State (Bloemfontein) | University of Natal (Durban) | University of the Witwatersrand | Reference: South African Libraries

Tanzania

University of Dar Es Salaam

Uganda

Marerere University Library (Kampala)

Zambia

University of Zambia (Lusaka)

Zimbabwe

Bulawayo Public Library Prince Edward School (Herare) | University of Zimbabwe

Asia

Bangladesh

Independent University | North South University | University of Dhaka

China

National Library of China | Peking University (Beijing) | Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai) | Tsinghua University (Beijing)

Hong Kong

City University of Hong Kong | Open University

India

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (Mumbai) | Indira Gandhi National Open University (New Delhi) | Mysore University | Nalanda Digital Library (Calicut) | Panjab University (Chandiharth)

Indonesia

Perpustakaan Nasional (National Library of Indonesia)

Japan

Hiroshima University | Hokkaido University | Keio University | Konan University | Kumamoto University | Kwansei Gakuin University | Kyoto University | Kyushu University | Meiji Gakuin University | Nagoya University | National Diet Library | Nijgata University | Ochanomizu University | Osaka University | Otemon Gakuin University | Rikkyo University | Shizuoka University | Tohoku University | University of Tokyo | Waseda University | Yokohama National University

Korea

National Library | National Digital Library

Macau

University of Macau

Malaysia

Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia (National Library of Malaysia)

Singapore

National Library of Singapore | University of Singapore

Sri Lanka

University of Moratuwa (Katubedda)

Taiwan

National Central Library (Taipei) | Cheng Kung Univ. (Tainan) | Tsing Hua Univ. (Hsinchu)

Australia & New Zealand

• Australian Libraries

• Australian National Library

• New Zealand National Library

• University Libraries Australia
  Auburn | Australian Catholic | Bond | Canberra | Central Queensland | Charles Stuart | Curtin | Deakin | Edith Cowan | Flinders | James Cook | La Trobe | Macquarie | Monash | Murdoch | New England | New South Wales | Newcastle | Notre Dame | Queensland | South Australia | Southern Cross | Sydney | Tasmania | Victoria | Western Australia | Westerb City | Wollongong

Canada

• Canadian National Library
  Canadian Information by subject. The National Library of Canada provides a subject tree and populates the tree with links to Canadian-specific information on each subject. Bases on the Dewey Decimal Classification. Easy to browse. Keyword searching is coming soon.

• University Libraries : Alberta | Algoma | Athabasca | Bishop's | Brandon | British Columbia | Brock | Cariboo | Carleton | Concordia | Fraser Valley | Kwantlen | Lakehead | Laurentian | Laval | McMaster | Manitoba | McGill | Montreal | Nipissing | Northern British Columbia | Okanagan | Ottawa | Québec à Chicoutimi | Québec Qutanouais | Québec à Montréal | Québec à Rimouski | Québec à Trois-Rivières | Regina | Saskatchewan | Sherbrooke | Simon Fraser | Toronto | Trent | Trinity | Victoria | Victoria (Toronto) | Waterloo | Winnipeg | York

• Reference: Canadian Library Index
  Compiled by Peter Scott (University of Saskatchewan Library).

Latin America

Argentina

Bibliotheca Nacional de la República Argentina | Biblioteca Central

Universities: Universidad de Buenos Aires | Universidad Caece | Universidad Nacional de La Plata | Universidad de San Andres (Bibliotheca Max von Buch) | Universidad del Salvador

Bolivia

Universidad Mayor de San Andres | Universidad Mayor de San Simón | Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Brazil

Bibliotheca Nacional | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro | State University of Campinas | University of Rio de Janeiro | University of Rio Grande do Sul | University of São Paulo

Chile

Biblioteca Nacional de Chile | Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile | Universidad Católica de Valparaiso | Universidad de Chile | Universidad de Concepción

Colombia

Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia | Universidad de Caldas | Universidad de Manizales | Universidad del Norte | Universidad de Los Andes | Universidad del Valle | Universidad EAFIT | Universidad Nacional | Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana | Universidad de San Buenaventura - Cali

Mexico

Bibliotheca Nacional de Mexico

Nicaragua

American University (Managua)

Peru

University of Lima

Venezuela

Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela | Universidad Simón Bolívar

Middle East

Iran

Ferdowsi University (Mashhad) | Iranian Information and Documentation Center (Teheran)

Israel

Bar-Ilan University | Ben-Gurion University | Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (Humanities and Social Sciences) | Jewish National and University Library | Brender-Moss Library for Social Sciences & Management (Tel Aviv) | Open University of Israel | University of Haifa | Tel Aviv University | Weizmann Institute of Science

Kuwait

American School of Kuwait | University of Kuwait

Lebanon

Beirut Arab University | Haigazian University (Beirut) | Lebanese American University (Beirut & Byblos) | University of Balamand (Deir El-Balamand)

Palestine

Birzeit University

Qatar

Central Library of Qatar

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates University (Al-Ain)

U.S.A.

• ALA's Library - American Library Association

• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
  A collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English and American literature as well as Western philosophy. An informal research project whose purpose was to explore the possibilitites creating catalogs of internet-based electronic texts. Originally conceived by Hunter Monroe in 1993-4, the catalog contains roughly 2,000 entries mostly on gopher servers. You can not only search for and display texts from the collection, but you can also search the content of located texts. Maintenance of the catalog has been suspended until adeqate funding and/or a systematic method for collecting electronic texts can be obtained. There are two ways to approach the catalog: you can go directly to the catalog and browse by authors, titles or date, or you can use a form to enter a Boolean query. Editor: Eric Lease Morgan
  
  
  
  
  

• Amazon.com | Canada | France | Germany | Japan | UK
  Search one million titles. This is the claim: "Earth's biggest river surges with ten times the volume of the next mightiest river. And, in keeping with its namesake, Amazon.com Books offers over one million titles, more than five times as many titles as you'll find at even the largest Barnes & Noble, Borders, or other chain superstores. The good and the bad, the hard-to-find and the easy-to-find — our goal is to carry every book in print, all available for immediate delivery". Try it to see if they are right.
  

  Author
  	First name/initials and last name Start of last name Exact name
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  	Title word(s) Start(s) of title word(s) Exact start of title
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  	Subject word(s) Start of subject Start(s) of subject word(s)
  ISBN
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  Refine your search (optional):
  Format:	All formats Hardcover Paperback Audiobook (cassette or CD) Large print Calendar
  Reader age:	All ages Baby-3 years 4-8 years 9-12 years Teen
  Language:	All languages Spanish
  Publication date:	All dates Before the year During the year After the year
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  Sort results by:	Most available Bestselling Avg. Customer Review Price: low to high Price: high to low Publication date Alphabetical: A to Z Alphabetical: Z to A

• Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
  A consortium of then institutions representing 12 major libraries located in Colorado and Wyoming.

• Dial-A-Book
  International provider of book-browsing content on the internet. All the sites that host a Chapter One service on one page. Includes more thant 100,000 html files (in 2006).

• Electronic Thesis and Dissertations in the Humanities
  A directory of on-line references and resources, compiled by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. The site is intended as a clearing-house for on-line information related to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the humanities.

• eLibrary
  Search newspapers, magazines, books, television and radio transcripts and many other information resources and retrieve the full text. You can pose a question in plain English and launch a comprehensive, simultaneous search through a deep database of reliable sources.

• EServer
  A cooperative dedicated to electronic distribution of texts in many disciplines.. The collections contain topics like contemporary art, race, internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, accessible publishing, and current political and social issues. The main page offers 47 subject areas for browsing, from art, drama and poetry to feminism and history. It contains an expanding collection of texts and links to texts (now more than 10,000 in various disciplines). Texts prepared for the English Server are offered both in chapter-length HTML pages and as PostScript files. The EServer is based at Iowa State University.

• FeMiNa
  A virtual library providing women & girls with a comprehensive, searchable directory of links to female-friendly sites and information on the WWW.

• Geospatial & Statistical Data Center (GeoStat)
  Provides maps, geospatial date, and social science datasets, including specialized software to analyse digitaal geographic and statistical data.

• Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) - University of Michigan.

• IngentaConnect
  A global gateway to research several social sciences. It provides a free online seach service of published content from reliable research sources.

• Library of Congress (LOC)
  • Online Catalogs
    A public retrieval system, providing access to over 12 million bibliographic records (out of 27 million) from the LOC. You can search by keyword, author, title, ISBN and LC class searches, as well as limit by format, date, publisher, and language. You can sort results by date, title, of LC call number, either in ascending or descending order. Individual records are displayed in hypertext format, making it possible to jump to other works on the same subject, call number, or by the same author, als well as to link to online texts and images, and view by the MARC (MAchine Readable-Cataloging) formats of any record. Search the catalogs using basic search or Guided search.

  • Library of Congress Information System (LOCIS) [telnet]
    Offers access to catalog records for books, microforms, serials, cartographic items, music, visual materials (films, filmstrips, posters, prints, photographs), computer files, manuscripts, thesauri of names and subject terms used in cataloging records, catalog records from some other research libraries, and records for some bibliographies. LOCIS provides browsable indexes, keyword searching, Boolean combinations, various display options, set creation, and advanced features for limiting sets. Connecting to LOCIS requires the use of Telnet or TN3270 software. Telnet and TN3270 are TCP/IP programs that allow you to connect to and use computers that are connected to the internet; many online catalogs are only available through this connection method.

  • Z39.50
    A simple interface using the Z39.50 technology. You can search books by title or personal name (one person's name only). Use of this form results in a combined search of the following LC files: books, serials, music, maps, manuscripts, computer files, and visual materials. The Advanced Search Form must be used to for multiple terms useing Boolean operators. See LC MUMS Databases Searchable via Z39.50 for a brief description of the individual files.

  • Center for the Book
    Stimulates public interest in books, reading, and libraries, and encourages the study of books and print culture. The Center is a catalyst for promoting and exploring the vital role of books, reading, and libraries--nationally and internationally.

  • Browse Topical Guides
    The sites on the pages listed in this directory are provided by organizations outside the Library of Congress.

  • LC Classification System
    Outline of the Library of Congress Classification System. While the outline is not searchable, users may browse through the twenty-one categories, which are then arranged by sub-category and number range. It's a good start for the library user who would like to be convinced that the LOC system is a logical organizational structure. Very useful to library patrons who need to get an overall sense of the LOC system, and to library staff members who are assisting them. Editor: Matt Rosenberg.
  
  

• Online Books Page -> Social Sciences
  An annotated index of books whose full text is available on-line. Presented by the University of Pennsylvania. Enter either a title or an author and press the Search button.
  
  Author:
  Words in last or first name Exact start of name (last name first)
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  Words in title Exact start of title ("The", "A", and "An" can be omitted)

  
  

• OCLC - Online Computer Library Center (Ohio, USA)
  The OCLC facilitates access to the world's information and reduces library costs by offering services for libraries and their users. It is a nonprofit membership organization serving more than 41,000 libraries in 82 countries and territories around the world. The OCLC offers cataloging tools, reference databases, resource sharing tools, preservation services and the Dewey Decimal Classification. De WorldCat database holds over 48 million cataloging records created by libraries around the world.

• Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection
  Maps of countries, cities & regions all over the world that can be retrieved to your own computer screen. The site also provides historical maps and links to other map resources.

• Project Gutenberg
  "The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search." You can get electronic texts of literature, science, classics, drama, and fiction. All texts are free.
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• University of Maryland

• Universal Library Project
  The mission of the Universal Library Project is to start a worldwide movement to make available ALL the Authored Works of Mankind on the Internet so that anyone can access these works from any place at any time.

• University of California Libraries
  • Infomine
    Search for resources already entered for your subject (or allied subjects). These will have resources with links to other sites which may be relevant to you.

  • Research Guides & Internet Resources by Subject

  • www.

• Virtual Library: Sociology

Europe

General

• National Libraries of Europe
  Albania | Austria | Belgium | Bulgaria | Croatia | Cyprus | Czech Republic | Denmark | Estonia | Finland | France | Germany | Greece | Hungary | Iceland | Ireland | Italy-Florence | Italy-Roma | Latvia | Liechtenstein | Lithuania | Luxembourg | Macedonia | Malta | Netherlands | Norway | Poland | Portugal | Romania | Russia-Moscow | Russia-St.Petersburg | San Marino | Serbia | Scotland | Slovak Republic | Slovenia | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland | Turkey | Ukraine | United Kingdom | Vatican City | Wales

• The European Library - Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
  Search all the WWW services of the national libraries.

• European Libraries - from Berkeley-LibWeb.

• EUR-OP - Publications of the European Communities
  Provides access to >72.000 publications. The database is searchable.

Andorra

• Bivlioteca Nacional d'Andorra

Austria

• Austrian Scientific Libraries

• University Libraries: Antwerp | Brussels (Catholic Univ.) | Brussels (Free Univ.) | Ghent | Leuven | Liege | Louvain | Mons-Hainout

• Belgian Library Catalogues available over the Internet

• University Libraries: Royal Library, Copenhagen | Statsbiblioteket (State and University Library) | Aalborg | Aarhus | Odense | Roskilde

• Tartu University Library

• National Library of Estonia

• Helsinki University Library - The National Library of Finland

• Kaarinan Library

• Lappeenranta University of Technology Library

• Public Libraries Enterpage

• University of Lapland Library

• University Libraries: Amiens | Angers | Besançon | Bordeaux 1 (Talence) | Bordeaux 2 (Victor Segalen) | Caen | Evry Val d'Essone | La Havre | Laval | Lille 1 | Marne la Vallée | Nice | Perpignan | Poitiers | Provence-Aix Marseille | Strassbourg 1 | Strassbourg 2 | Strassbourg 3 | Toulouse

• Bibliothèque nationale de France
  The French national library.

• Blbliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine (BDIC)
  

• Catalogues Collectifs des Ouvrages
  Bibliographical databases produced by the french research libraries of the CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre, Social Sciences and Humanities Department).

• French Bibelec - Bibliothèque Electronique des Etudiants (Students' Electronic Library)
  An electronic library of papers in social and political sciences written by students at French universities. It covers a broad spectrum of issues in the social sciences: economics, politics, history, law and international relations, communication and media. The majority of papers are available in French only, some are offered in English. The site is written in French and English.

• Gallica
  Images and texts of 19th century France. Experimental service of the collections of the National Library of France.

• Sciences et société
  A French library which specializes in history, philosophy, sociology and political science.

• Les Bibliothèques Universitaires
  French university libraries on the internet.

• University Libraries: Augsburg | Bamberg | Bayreuth | Berlin | Bielefeld | Bonn | Bremen | Dortmund | Düsseldorf | Eichstadt | Essen | Frankfurt | Freiburg | Gießen | Göttingen | Greifswald | Hamburg | Jena | Kiel | Köln | Leipzig | Mainz | Münster | Oldenburg | Osnabrück | Passau | Potsdam | Stuttgart | Trier | Wuppertal

• Bavarian Library Network (Munich)

• Central and State Library of Berlin (ZLB)

• E-Dissertationen
  The State and University Library Hamburg presents all elektronic dissertations of the university.

• German Library Information Servers (Bibliotheken, Bücher und Berichte)

• Verbund Öffentlicher Bibliotheken Berlins (VÖBB)

• WEBIS - Sammelschwerpunkte an deutschen Bibliotheken.
  Search for a German library on region or discipline.

• German Libraries online
  A service from 'Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen' (HBZ) in Cologne. A search engine is indexing most pages of these libraries. It's a good starting point for finding the right library.

• University Libraries: Aegean University | Aristotle University (Tessaloniki) | Athens University | Athens College Library | Crete | Democritus University of Thrace | Ionian University Library | Macedonia | Patras | University of Ioannina | University of Thessaly (Volos)
• Greek Libraries on the Web (Patras)

Iceland

• National & University Library of Iceland

• ALICE. Il libro in rete - Editori, librerie e biblioteche online.

• Banca Dati Bibliografica delle Riviste Italiane di Sociologia (CISI) - Bibliographic database of the Italian Magazines of Sociology.

• Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN)

• National and University Library "Saint Clement of Ohrid"'

• University Libraries: Oslo | Bergen | Trondheim | Tromso

• NSM Library - Norwegian School of Management.

• University Libraries: Alicante | Autonomous Univ. of Barcelona | Barcelona | Bilbao | Cantabria | Castilla - La Mancha | Córdoba | Girona | La Laguna | Madrid | Open Univ. of Catalonia | Seville | Valladolid | Zaragoza

• Bibliotheca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

• Biblioteca Virtual Joan Lluís Vives

• Library of Catelonia (Barcelona)

• University Libraries: Göteborg | Linköping | Lund | Luleå | Uppsala | Växjö

• University Libraries: Basel | Berne | Geneva | St. Gallen | Zurich

• Internet à la bibliothèque cantonale - Electronic references of the cantonal library of Valais.

• Catalogue of Swiss libraries (Switch)

• University Libraries: Anadolu University (Eskisehir) | Bahçeşehir University | Bilkent University (Ankara) | Marmara University (Istanbul) | Sabanci University (Istanbul)

• BIDS - Bath Information and Data Services
  Bibliographic data and electronic journals for education and research. BIDS is a leading UK provider of networked information services for higher education and research. It offers key bibliographic databases for the academic community, plus worldwide internet access to an expanding range of full text electronic journals. University of Bath.

• BLDS Bibliographic Database
  The library catalogue and journal articles database of the British Library for Development Studies (BLDS) at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK. The database includes over 116,000 records of documents on economic and social development held by the BLDS. This comprises: all journal, working paper and series titles held; books acquired since 1987; selected journal articles indexed since 1990. Particular strengths of the BLDS lie in its collection of materials produced in developing countries. It is also a depository library for publications from international organisations (including the UN system and World Bank) and collects widely from developed country publishers.

• BLPES - British Library of Political and Economic Science
  The largest library in Europe dedicated to political, economic and social science. The Library contains around 4 million bibliographic items, including 29,000 serials, of which around 10,000 are current files. Around 20,000 monograph titles are added to stock annually. Its scope is the social sciences in the widest sense of the term. Coverage of statistical publications is particularly strong. Material is collected in the major languages of Western and Eastern Europe.

• COPAC
  A national Online Public Access Catalogue, providing unified access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Hosted at Manchester Computing, University of Manchester. COPAC is based on the database of the Consortium of University Research Libraries. Three types of search are available: Author/Title Search, Periodical Search, Subject Search. When carrying out a Web Interface search you can choose between the Brief Display and a Download Display. The latter displays 100 records at a time, in a format designed for easy incorporation of the records into personal bibliographic software. You can use your browser's own download facility to save the records.

• EASI - Electronic Access to Subject Information
  A library service from the London School of Economics (LSE) which enables you to locate, and use, a large number of CD-ROMs, online and Internet sources relevant to your areas.

• Intute
  Social Sciences | Anthropology | Business & Management | Economics | Education | Environmental Sciences | European Studies | Government Policy | Hostpitalirty and Catering | Human Heography | Law | Politics | Psychology | Social Welfare | Sociology | Sport and Leisuere Practice | Statistics and Data | Travel and Tourism | Women's Studies

• SPRU Library Catalogue
  The library catalogue of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex (UK). It holds a unique collection of resources relating to science policy and technology management. Acces is free, but you must fill in a registration form before thay can access the catalogue.

• UKOLN's Public Library Pages
  The UK Office for Library and Information Networking. UKOLN is a national centre for support in network information management in the library and information communities. It provides awareness, research and information services. It is based in the University of Bath.

• UK Higher Education & Research Libraries
  The most comprehensive listing of UK university and research library websites (+130). Editor: Ian Tilsed.

Netherlands

General

• Association of Public Libraries

• Databank Bibliografie Nederlandse Sociale Wetenschappen (BNSW)
  Database with bibliographical information about > 75.000 publications on Dutch and Flamish social sciences from 1978 till today. With reviews (from 1990).
  

  Search in database bnsw
  All words:
  Words in Titles:
  Author:
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  Exclude items with less than	50 0 10 25 50 75 90 100 % relevance.
  Limit to year:	--All-- 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966
  Sort:	Year then relevance  Relevance

• Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands
  • General Catalogue

  • Online Contents KB
    Tables of contents from a number of periodicals in the KB collection.

  • DutchESS - Dutch Electronic Subject Service
    A retrieval system for internet resources that are relevant to the academic community. The resources are classified according to the Dutch Classification System. The resources are selected and annotated by the subject specialists of the participating libraries. But don't expect too much from the Sociology category (71).
    

    	Key:	Any word Title word(s) Contents Author Url BC description BC code Creation date
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  • Subject Guides - Search by Subject
  
  

• KNAW
  Library of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• METIS: Research information system - Univ. of Nijmegen
  A relational database system that contains information on scientific research, researchers and research results. For full use of the OZIS-functions, you need a userid and a password. Dutch and English version.

• NIWI - Nederlands Instituut voor Wetenschappelijke Informatiediensten
  Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services. An institute of the KNAW. In Social Sciences section you'll find data archives (data for secondary analysis), documents and bibligraphic references, and research information on youth research.

• OCLC | PICA - European library cooperative
  A cooperative, not-for-profit organization for libraries and other information providing institutions. Pica wants to improve the efficiency of information supply by promoting cooperation between the participating institutions. It has developed a technical and organizational infrastructure for online access to information, and for the supply of that information to library users. Through Pica, Dutch libraries offer their users access to vast quantities of information from their own libraries, from other libraries and from national databases. The Open Library Network (OBN) facilitates access to and delivery of this information to library staff and users. In addition, Pica's central databases are available for online services to library users. Together these contain title information of almost 10 million monographs and 350.000 periodicals, and about 4 million journal articles.

• WebCat: WebDOC catalogue
  The WebDOC project aims at providing a network infrastructure where users are presented with adequate localisation facilities and can depend on documents being available; universities and publishers can provide access to the documents they own, taking into account their commercial interests. It contains a central catalogue of electronically available documents, the WebCAT (hosted at the central shared cataloguing and document ordering system of Pica in Leiden). The participating libraries contribute title descriptions and abstracts of journal articles and other material to this central catalogue of electronic publications. You can search the WebCAT, upon finding a publication that you want to access, you can request the document by clicking the Request button. Then the system checks the conditions that apply for retrieval of this specific document by this specific user. There are three possibilities: (1) the document can be retrieved freely; the request is sent to the document server; (2) the document is liable to a licence agreement between university library and publisher and is freely retrievable for users working in this university. In that case also, the request is sent directly to the documentserver; (3) the document is not free, you must enter your access number and the PIN-code of a pre-paid account which can be obtained from the library you are associated to.

• Search Dutch Library from bibliotheek.nl

• SRM - Social Research and Methodology
  A unique database of references to literature on social and behavioral research methodology, statistical analysis, and computer software.

• Stichting Samenwerkende Bibliotheken met Wetenschappelijke Steunfunctie (WSF)

Library Networks and Central/Regional Catalogs

• AdamNet - Network of libraries in Amsterdam.

• Bibliotheek Informatienetwerk Tilburg

• Brabantse bibliotheken: Cubiss

• Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus (NCC) & Online Contents (OLC) - Koninklijke Bibliotheek
  NCC and OLC can be used if you open an account with one of the participating libraries. With this account you can search in the NCC >10 million book titles and >350.000 serials: in the OLC you can search on titles of >12.000 articles published in serials from 1992; you can order copies and lend books; receive contents of new editions of serials.

• Overijsselse Bibliotheek Dienst

• Regional network of libraries in Utrecht (RUBEN)

• Rotterdamnet

• Samenwerkende Bibliotheken Flevoland: Almere - Dronten - Lelystad - Noordoostpolder - Urk - Zeewolde

• Wageningen Desktop Library - Central agricultural catalogue

University Libraries

Amsterdam | Amsterdam - VU | Delft | Eindhoven | Groningen | Leiden | Limburg | Nijenrode | Nijmegen | Open University | Rotterdam | Twente | Tilburg | Utrecht | Wageningen

Higher Education Libraries

Amsterdam | Drente | Eindhoven | Fontys Hogescholen | Inholland | Rotterdam & Omstreken | Rotterdam | Utrecht | Zeeland

• Archives of the International Institute of Social History

• Bibliotheek CBS
  Library of Statistics Netherlands, a department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. English and Dutch version.

• Homodok-Lesbisch Archief Amsterdam - Homo/Lesbian Documentation Center.

• Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging (IIAV)
  International information center and archive for the women's movement.

• International Institute of Social History (IISH)

• Laurens Janszoon Coster
  The biggest on-line collection of electronic editions of classical Dutch literature.

• Piersonbibliotheek

• ZorgMediatheek

Reference - Indexes

• Alexandria Library Project - University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
  A working digital library with collection of geographically referenced materials and services for accessing those collections.

• Bakker, Trix (Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands)
  • De toenemende complexiteit van collectie management
    Excellent article on collection management in academic libraries. In Dutch.

  • Literature on collection management in the Netherlands

  • De vakreferent: een onmisbare schakel in de toenemende informatiestroom
    Article on the function of the librarian. The motto: "the primary function of the library is not so much to provide access to information, as it is rather to reduce the amount of time needed by local clients to gain such access" (Atkinson).

  • Resource sharing in a virtual library environment: user oriented collection management
    The virtual library concept can be seen as a model for resource sharing. The three major components of resource sharing are: bibliographic access, interlibrary lending, and co-operative collection development. The changes being experienced in the transition to a digital environment offer new opportunities for co-operative action in making information available to users. The shift to a predominantly digital environment will occur at different rates in different fields, which urges for different approaches in those fields. Electronic journals for the sciences offer new perspectives for co-ordinated collection development. Collection building per institute and the NCC/IBL-system will vanish and make way, by negotiations with publishers, for a distributed and co-ordinated collection. Books are, however, still the most important tools for the humanities' community.
  
  

• Benschop, Albert [November 1997] Virtuele bibliotheken - Dromen over de ideale bibliotheek
  Article on the possibilities and limitations of virtual libraries.

• IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations
  A very extensive index of Electronic/Digital Library Net-based resources: Electronic Collections and Services. It contains as well as links to resources, links to other research and projects around the world. There's a specail page with Web accessible National and Major Libraries.

• Internet Public Library: Reference Center - Michigan

• LibDex
  A worldwide index of library catelogues, websites and friend of libraries pages. Editor: Peter Scott of the University of Saskatchewan.

• Library and Related Resources - Exiter Univ. Library.

• Libweb
  A list of library servers via WWW, from Berkeley Digitla Library SunSITE. You can make a keyword search for location, library type, name or other information. The database contains over 2300 pages in over 70 countries.

• National Library Catalogues Worldwide
  Pointers and login instructions to national library catalogs in 38 countries. At this moment the coverage is limited primarily to European and North American countries. Editor: John W. East (University of Queensland Library, Australia).

• National Libraries of the World

• Research Library Collections - English Server

• Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG)
  A not-for-profit membership corporation of institutions devoted to improving access to information that supports research and learning. Includes a quarterly newsletter focussing on digital images and preservation.

• Steven Harnad E-Prints on interactive publication
  A collection of articles on scholarly skywriting, interactive publication, and implementing peer review on the net.

• Telematics for Libraries
  The European Commission studies public libraries world-wide on the internet and has done some interesting research. This was done under the Third and Fourth Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, Telematics for Libraries, from 1990 to 1998. More resent activities are presented in the DigitCult site.

• Niet, Marco de / Peereboom, Marianne [2001] (Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands)
  De Virtuele bibliotheek - Definitie van kernbegrippen
  Article on the concept of the virtual library (in Dutch).

• Wegwijzer naar bibliotheek- en documentatiediensten
  A guide to librarian and documentation services from the Royal Library (The Hague). References on The Netherlands, Europe, North-America, Africa and the Middle-East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, International organizations, Global library guides, amd Education in library and documentation sciences.

• WWW Library Directory
  An index with thousands of libraries and library-related sites in many countries. Compiled by Michael P. Sauers.

• Yale University: Local and Worldwide Library Catalogs
  Includes details of the software used at each library and instructions for different catalog types.