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  • OCLC - Online Computer Library Center
    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 69,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories around the world. The OCLC offers cataloging tools, reference databases, resource sharing tools, preservation services and the Dewey Decimal Classification. The WorldCat database holds over 48 million cataloging records created by libraries around the world.

Africa

African Virtual University

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

Algeria

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Angola

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Universidade Católica de Angola (UCAN)

Botswana

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Central African Republic

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Ethiopia

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Gambia

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Ghana

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Guinea-Bissau

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Ivory Coast / Côte d’Ivoire

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Kenya

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Lesotho

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Libya

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Morocco

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Nigeria

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Sudan

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Zambia

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Asia

 

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Australia & New Zealand

 

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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.

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Mexico  Associations | Databases | Departments | Journals | News Sources | Research Centers

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ALA - 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.

Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
A consortium of ten institutions representing 13 major libraries located in Colorado and Wyoming. The Alliance was founded in 1974 to share resources (purchasing power, materials and ideas).

Dial-A-Book Chapter One Program
International provider of book-browsing content on the internet. All the sites that host a Chapter One service on one page. Includes more than 350,000 HTML and XML files (in 2015).

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among librarians, scholars, educators, and private industry representatives since the early 1990s. Many universities, public libraries, and other public-spirited organizations have digitized materials, but these digital collections often exist in silos. The DPLA brings these different viewpoints, experiences, and collections together in a single platform and portal, providing open and coherent access to our society’s digitized cultural heritage. The portal delivers millions of materials found in American archives, libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions to students, teachers, scholars, and the public. Far more than a search engine, the portal provides innovative ways to search and scan through its united collection of distributed resources. Special features include a dynamic map, a timeline that allow users to visually browse by year or decade, and an app library that provides access to applications and tools created by external developers using DPLA’s open data.

 Subjects ------------------------------------- African Americans Anthropology Crime, Law & Justice Customs Economics Ethnic Groups Ethnology Family Government & Law Government & Politics Indigenous Populations Man-women relationships Migration Native Americans Religion Sociology Society & Culture Statistics Women 

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 50 subject areas for browsing, from art, cyber tech, drama and poetry to feminism and history. It contains an expanding collection of texts and links to texts (now more than 35,000 in various disciplines). Texts prepared for the English Server are offered both in chapter-length HTML pages and as PostScript files. The EServer is a digital humanities venture, founded in 1990 and based at Iowa State University.
Bad Subjects | Culturas Studies & Critical Theory | Feminism & Women’s Studies | Gender & Sexuality Studies | History & Historiography | Internet | Marx & Engels’ Writings | Multimedia & Hypermedia | New Media | Race & Ethnicity | Techno Culture

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

Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) - University of Michigan
Provides online access to full text resources since 1994. It is a unit of the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) of the University of Michigan.  Social Sciences

IngentaConnect |     Social Sciences
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 approximately 14 million 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. Results can be sorted 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.
  • Digital Collections & Services
    Offers acces to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services.
  • LC Classification Outline
    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.

Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection - University of Texas at Austin 
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  Anthropology | Folklore | Religion | Sociology 
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.

Universal Digital Library (UDL)
The mission is to create a Universal Library which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. Based at the Carnegie Mellon University.

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  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Oboulo 
    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, Portuguese and English.
  • French Libraries - LibWeb

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Georgia - Sakartvelo

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Germany  Associations | Databases | Departments | Journals | News Sources | Researh Centers

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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

Greece

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Aegean University | Aristotle University of Tessaloniki | Athens University | Athens College Library | Crete | Democritus University of Thrace | Ionian | Ioannina | Macedonia | Panteion | Patras | Pireus | Thessaly, University of (Volos)

Hungary

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Iceland

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National & University Library of Iceland

Ireland

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  • 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.
  • 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
  • ProQuest
    Provides access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world’s scholarship. The system covers multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social science to science, technology, and medicine. It includes the world's largest digital newspaper archive; periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles and spanning more than 500 years; the dissertation collection, and various other scholarly collections. Users access the information through the ProQuest and CSA Illumina Web-based online information systems; Chadwyck-Healey electronic and microform resources; UMI microform and print reference products; eLibrary, SIRS, and CultureGrams educational resources; Ulrich's Serials Analysis SystemTM; COS Research Support Services, and Serials Solutions resource management tools.
  • 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.

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