Books | Trade and National Biliographies | Journals and Periodicals | Current Periodical Indexes | Historical Periodical Indexes

FINDING BOOKS

MiamiLINK

MiamiLINK is your gateway to locating books, journals, internet sites and other databases held locally. MiamiLINK also has links to information about the libraries, including hours, interlibrary loan, requsting a book for purchase and workshops offered. Use MiamiLink to connect to the databases listed in this guide as well as to locate books, both at Miami and in the world at large.

SHERLOCK

SHERLOCK is the name of Miami University Libraries computerized catalog, and contains books, manuscripts, titles of periodicals, many U. S. Government Documents and newspapers that the libraries own. One hint: always look at the subject headings assigned to some of the books on your subject. In many ways, these subject headings are still the most efficient and comprehensive method of searching.

OHIOLINK

Ohiolink’s searching software is nearly identical to Miami’s catalog. This on-line catalog links most major public universities, selected private universities, and state supported community colleges -- meaning that you can search all of these catalogs at once. When searching in Ohiolink, the database will tell you what libraries own a specific book and if it is checked out. You directly request items from any of the OhioLINK libraries as well as have the item delivered to any OhioLINK library regardless of your home library affiliation.

WORLDCAT

World Cat is essentially subject, author, title, and keyword searching of OCLC (Online Computerized Library Catalog). Libraries across the United States and some other nations use Worldcat to share cataloging and for Interlibrary Loan tasks. That means that you can search a huge database regardless of where an item is located. On the MiamiLINK main menu choose World Cat from the online catalogs section.

TRADE AND NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Trade and national bibliographies are lists of books published or sold, or held, by a commercial publisher, a library, or other corporate or national entity. This includes recently published items listed in "books in print" or books published during a certain time period, country, language, or books held in a national library.

NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES

BOOKS IN PRINT | CURRENTLY PUBLISHED TITLES

• Books in Print. (and Forthcoming Books in Print).
  Lists by subject, author and title books that are still in print in the United States. Also, can check older volumes for a subject bibliography.
  King Ready Ref
• Whitaker's Books in Print.(British)
  King Refs Z200 .R33
• Les Livres Disponsible. BIP, . French.
  King Ref Z2161 .L8
• Verzeichnis Lieferbarer Bucher. BIP,. German.
  King Ref Z2221.V47
• Libros Espanoles in Venta. . Spanish/Spain.
  King Ref Z2681.L53
• Amazon.com
  US: http://www.amazon.com/
  UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/
  Germany: http://www.amazon.de/
  Japan: http://www.amazon.co.jp/
  France: http://www.amazon.fr/
  Canada: http://www.amazon.ca/

UNION LISTS

Union Lists are usually comprehensive listings of catalog holdings of an instituion or organization, often reflecting the holdings of a National Library.

• National Union Catalog (NUC)
  The card catalog of the Library of Congress. Excellent source to locate the correct title, etc., or existence of a book. Much can now be found in World Cat.
• British Museum General Catalogue of Books.
• Bibliotheque Nationale. Catalogue Generale.
• Deutsche Bucherverzeichnis

TRADE BIBLIOGRAPHIES | BOOKS

• Early English Books Online (EEOB)1475-1700
  Restricted to Miami Universtiy Users. Contains Pollard and Redgreve's Short Title Catatlog, Wing's Short Title Catalogue, the Thomson Tracks and supplements.
  http://wwwlib.umi.com/eebo (Access also under Indexes and Databases)
• English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) 1473-1800
  Database that indexes and describes works printed in any language in England or in English anywhere in the world. Texts are on microfiche. Look up titles in the online catalog.
  Access under Indexes and Databases | General |Historical
• American Bibliography [1639-1800]. Evans.
  King Ref Z 1215 .E92
• Dictionary of Books Relating to America. Sabin.
  King Ref Z 1201 .S2
• Bibliotheca Americana [1820-1861]. Roorbach.
  King Ref Z 1215 .A3 1939

PERIODICALS | JOURNALS | MAGAZINES

DIRECTORIES OF CURRENTLY PUBLISHED PERIODICALS

• History Journals Guide (www-vl)
  http://www.history-journals.de/
• Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory.
  Similar to a 'Books in Print' for journals.
  King Ready Ref
• Willing's Press Guide.
  UK and international.
  King Ref Z 6956 .E5 W5
• Benn's Media Directory.
  Europe and international.
  King Ref P 88.8 B462
• Gale Directory of Publications. (US and Canada)
  King Ref Z 6951 .A97
  

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED PERIODICALS

• Union List of Serials.
  King Ref Z 6945 .U45 1965
• Center for Research Libraries Catalogue: Serials.
  King Ref Z 6945 .C5335
• British Union-Catalogue of Periodicals.
  King Ref Z 6945 .B87
• Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals.
  King Ref Z 6956 .G6 W63 and on CD ROM
• Newspapers on Microfilm.
  United States 1948-1983.
  King Ref PN 4855 .L53x
• Newspapers on Microfilm.
  Foreign Countries.
  King Ref PN 4731 .L53x

PERIODICAL INDEXES

CURRENT INDEXES

HISTORY

• Historical Abstracts.
  World History 1450 - present
  Research By Subject
• America: History and Life
  US and Canada
  Research By Subject
• CRIS: Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History, 1838-1974
  Divided by general subjects (countries or time periods) with a key word; rotated indexes.
  King Ref 6205 .C18
• International Medieval Bibliography.
  King Ref Z 6203 .I63 and CD ROM
• The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies.
• Africa Bibliography
  Research By Subject
• Biblioline African Studies
  Research By Subject
• International African Bibliography
  King Ref Z 3501 .I58x
• Bibliography of Asian Studies. .
  King Ref Z 3001 .B49
• L'Annee Philologique
  Index to classical literature, encompassing the major western language publications (i.e. English, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, etc.). CDROM (called DCB: Database of Classical Bibliography)
  Research By Subject
• TOCS-IN Table of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/amphoras/tocs.html
• ITER Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  http://www.itergateway.org
• Medieval Feminist Index
  http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html

GENERAL INDEXES, ENCOMPASSING HISTORY

• Public Affairs Information Bulletin.1914-
  Indexes articles on world and U.S. public policy etc. Includes some government documents.
  Research By Subject
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
  SSCI and AHCI use key words in titles as the indexing points. Be careful to search all forms of the word when subject searching. The citation portion of the index allows you to find who has cited a particular work in a bibliography.
  Research By Subject
• Humanities Index.
  Basic index to general humanities journals. Most are now indexed in Periodical Abstracts. However, sometimes older volumes of this index are useful.
  Research By Subject
• Dissertation Abstracts International (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
  Detailed summaries of doctoral dissertations. Mostly U.S. and Canada. Now adding some foreign. Most can be purchased from UMI or ordered from Interlibrary Loan.
  Research By Subject
• Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
  Research By Subject
• ATLA Religion Index
  Good source for world religious topics in a contemporary and historical context.
  Research By Subject
  Some science indexes may be of use for technological history.
  •General Science Index •Biological Abstracts
  •Index Medicus •Applied Science and Technology Index
  ****Most of the above indexes are available on-line. See the Computerized Literature Searching section below and the librarian.

HISTORICAL INDEXES | INDEXES TO PRIMARY SOURCE PERIODICAL ARTICLES

• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature.1900-
  Index to popular/general articles. Can help locate articles about events of the 20th century
  Research By Subject
• Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide 1890-1899
  Late nineteenth century reference to periodicals.
  King Index
• 19th Century Masterfile | Pooles Index To Periodical Literature
  Cites articles from 1802 through 1908. Citations are sometimes inaccurate, but this is the only index to 19th century periodicals.
  Research By Subject
• Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900.
  Major nineteenth century periodicals with listing of table of contents, issue by issue.
  King Ref Z 2005 .H6 and CDROM
• Harpweek
  Research By Subject
• American Periodical Series
  Research By Subject
• Accessible Archives
  Research By Subject

NEWSPAPERS

• The (London) Times Index. 1790+.
  King Index. Earlier indexes under AI 21 .T46
• New York Times Index. 1851+
  Research By Subject
• Newspaper Indexes: A Location and Subject Guide.
  Guide to locations of indexes (published and unpublished) of newspapers in the United States (but not necessarily U.S. newspapers).
  King Ref Z 6951 .M635 v1-3

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