Library and Information Science Resources on the Web

The items listed below represent some of the best current sources for Library and Information Science. They contain numerous links to other websites which feature various aspects of the this topic.

• Abstracts and Indexes
• Catalogs and Websites of Other Libraries
• Copyright Issues
• Electronic Journals
• History of Libraries and Book Culture
• Library Electronic Lists
• Library Schools
• Professional Associations
• Publishers and Vendors
• Other Resources

Abstracts and Indexes

• Dissertations & Theses (formerly Dissertation Abstracts) -- Dissertations & Theses provides access to abstracts and information about United States and selected foreign Dissertations published since 1861. Access to the database is available by subject, author, title and other methods. Dissertations for Iowa State University are available in the Parks Library; others can be obtained directly from University Microfilms or via interlibrary loan. Many ISU dissertations from 1997 to the present are available full-text from this database, and for other dissertations, the database offers access to a 24-page preview of the dissertation.
• ERIC -- The premier education index/abstract. The ERIC database, produced by the Educational Resources Information Center, provides access to more than a million citations and abstracts of articles published in over 700 educational journals and thousands of reports, on such topics as adult and vocational education; teacher education; reading and communication skills; disabled and gifted children; tests, measurement, and evaluation; and higher education. The ERIC database indexes articles and reports dated 1966 to the present. The ISU Library subscribes to most of the journals indexed by ERIC, and maintains a microfiche file of all indexed reports. The indexed reports (ED documents) are available full-text online.
• Library Literature (FirstSearch) -- Provides access to articles from more than 220 key library and information science periodicals. It indexes selected state library journals, more than 600 books annually, conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets. It includes book reviews. Coverage is from 1984 to the present.
• LII: Librarians' Index to the Internet -- An index to librarian-selected internet resources on just about every topic.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations -- A searchable database of accessible digital libraries of these and dissertations.
• Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information -- Deals with all aspects of electronic publishing and includes print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. This edition includes 1,239 titles. Thousands of URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) were added to various entries. The Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information is accompanied by the Electronic Sources of Information. Both the Index and the Sources are continuously updated.
• Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed--A listing of sources for searching for invisible Web resources, those sites not indexed by the usual search engines.

Catalogs and Websites of Other Libraries

• Bibliotheque Nationale de France -- Home page of the Bibliotheque Nationale, with links to its online catalog.
• The British Library -- Provides access to information about all aspects of the services and collections of the United Kingdom's national library.
• Center for Research Libraries -- A consortium of colleges, universities and research libraries. Search the CRL catalog of over 600,000 holdings.
• 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.
• Gabriel: The Gateway to Europe's National Libraries -- The official Web site of the national libraries in Europe. Can be accesssed in English, French, or German.
• Gateway to Library Catalogs -- Provides access to the catalog of the Library of Congress as well as hundreds of other library catalogs.
• Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog, KVK -- The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog is an interface that allows you to search simultaneously the holdings of many major libraries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, and the UK. It functions as a sort of European Union Catalog. Individual library catalogs may also be searched singly; their availability and coverage of older materials varies. In addition, KVK provides access to the German Union Catalog of Serials and to German book trade catalogs, including German Books in Print.
• LibDex -- Provides links to library catalogs on the World Wide Web searchable by geographical, vendor and library-type indexes; links to publisher's catalogs, Z39.50 resources, and versions of Hytelnet, the utility that provides access to telnet accessible sites on the Internet.
• Libweb : Library Servers via WWW -- Listing of libraries in over 100 countries; access to public, academic, national, state libraries and regional consortia.
• National Library Catalogues Worldwide -- An alphabetical listing by country of national catalogs with information necessary to connect to them.
• OPAC of the Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) -- The ZDB contains more than 1 million bibliographic records of serials from the 16th century onwards, from all countries, in all languages, held in 4000 German (and some foreign) libraries, with holdings information. It does not contains contents, i.e. journal articles.
• Presidential Libraries -- A guide to the presidential libraries of the United States.
• State of Iowa Libraries Online (SILO) -- Statewide electronic library information network providing access to Iowa's libraries and electronic catalog, the statewide "card catalog" known as the Iowa locator. Serves as a gateway to other Internet resources.
• UNESCO Libraries Portal -- An international information gateway for librarians and library users.

Copyright Issues

• Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) -- From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
• CopyOwn -- A wonderful resource on copyright ownership issues within the higher education community.
• Copyright & Fair Use -- Provides links to current legislation and other discussions of copyright issues.
• Copyright Clearance Center
• Copyright Management Center--Includes links to a wide variety of resources about copyright in general and its importance to higher education.
• Copyright Resources Online -- "This page incorporates work by Eileen Giford and Janet Erickson, updating the work of Ann Okerson. Eileen Gifford and Janet Erickson, at the time this work was done, were graduate students in the School of Information & Library Studies, U of Michigan and did this work as part of their coursework for ILS Copyright for the Information Professional, taught by Ann Okerson, Associate Librarian, Yale University."
• Copyright Website -- Provides real world, practical and relevant copyright information.

Electronic Journals

• Action for Libraries -- Published by the Bibliographic Center for Research (BCR), AFL provides news about BCR, the latest information about OCLC, reference databases and other BCR products and services, as well as a regular column about the Internet.
• Annual Review of OCLC Research -- This journal chronicled the research activities of OCLC from 1986 to 1999, first in print and later on the Web. Each issue contains a list of publications by OCLC Research staff.
• Archival Science -- This journal is the only independent, international, peer-reviewed journal on archival science, covering all aspects of theory, methodology and practice, with appropriate attention to the non-anglophone world.
• Archiving E-Journals Consultancy: Final Report
• The Ariadne Newsletter
• Book History -- Devoted to every aspect of the history of the book.
• Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
• Cause/Effect--See EDUCAUSE Quarterly.
• Communications in Information Literacy -- The newest and only journal devoted completely to information literacy.
• Computers in Libraries -- Covers the ever-changing world of information technology in libraries.
• Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists -- Focuses on issues dealing with publishing in the electronic environment.
• D-Lib Magazine
• EDUCAUSE Quarterly -- A journal about the uses of information resources in higher education.
• EDUCAUSE Review
• Electronic Resources Review -- Gives access to reviews of electronic materials. Users can access the latest reviews, and the archive over the World Wide Web.
• Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (E-JASL) -- Refereed journal devoted to all aspects of academic and special librarianship.
• Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM) -- Research and practice of knowledge management.
• First Monday -- A peer-reviewed journal which focuses on the Internet and the global information infrastructure.
• FLICC Newsletter (Federal Library and Information Center Committee)
• Government Information Quarterly -- Covers information policies and practices both nationally and abroad.
• Health Information and Libraries Journal
• Health Libraries Review--See Health Information and Libraries Journal
• Information Development
• Information Research: An International Electronic Journal -- Full-text articles about research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. Publishes refereed papers in information science, information management, information-systems, policy, and librarianship.
• Information Retrieval -- An international forum for theory and experiment in information retrieval and its application in the networked information environment.
• Information Systems -- Database management, creation, and use.
• Information Technology and Libraries
• Internet Research -- Seeks to foster understanding of telecommunication networks in society.
• Internet Resources Newsletter -- The free, monthly newsletter for academics, students, engineers, scientists and social scientists.
• Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship -- A peer-reviewed journal from the Science & Technology Section of ACRL.
• JASIS--See Journal of the American Society for Information Science
• JASIST--See Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
• Journal of Documentation
• Journal of Electronic Publishing -- Focuses on issues dealing with publishing in the electronic environment.
• Journal of eLiteracy (JeLit) -- An open access journal from the University of Glasgow.
• Journal of Government Information
• Journal of Information Science
• Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply
• Journal of Internet Cataloging
• Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
• Journal of Library Administration
• Journal of Multimedia History -- A peer-reviewed journal that presents, evaluates, and disseminates multimedia historical scholarship.
• Journal of the American Society for Information Science
• Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
• LC Cataloging Newsline
• Libraries and Culture
• Library Journal
• Library of Congress Information Bulletin
• Library Philosophy and Practice -- "A peer-reviewed electronic journal that publishes articles exploring the connection between library practice and the philosophy and theory behind it."
• LIBRES -- An international, refereed, electronic journal devoted to new research in library and information science.
• LITA New and Noteworthy
• Medical Reference Services Quarterly
• Museum Management and Curatorship
• National Diet Library Newsletter -- The newsletter of the National Diet Library.
• NLM Technical Bulletin
• North Carolina Libraries -- Official publication of the North Carolina Library Association.
• OCLC Systems and Services
• Online Information Review
• Portal: Libraries and the Academy
• Primary Source -- The Institute of Museum and Library Services online newsletter
• Progressive Librarian -- "A forum for critical perspectives in Librarianship, featuring articles, book reviews, bibliographies, reports and documents that explore progressive perspectives on librarianship and information issues."
• The Public-Access Computer Systems Review
• School Library Media Quarterly Online -- A journal that assists school library media practitioners in integrating theory and practice, and also encourages scholarship in the school library media field, education, psychology, and other related disciplines.
• School Library Media Research -- A journal that assists school library media practitioners in integrating theory and practice, and encourages scholarship in the school media field, education, psychology, and other related disciplines.
• Syllabus -- A monthly magazine that focuses on the use of technology in higher education. Often has library-related articles.
• Telecommunications Electronic Review (LITA)
• Webology -- A scholarly online journal focusing on research in information dissemination & communication processes with an emphasis on the World Wide Web.

History of Libraries and Book Culture

• Book History Online: International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries
• The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
• Library History Database -- The Library History Database now contains information on over 27,000 libraries in the British Isles, and is based on over 1,200 published works.
• Library History Roundtable
• SHARP Web -- Sponsored by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing.

Library Electronic Lists

• Library Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials -- A searchable and browseable list of electronic lists related to libraries and librarianship. Maintained by the Washington Research Libraries Consortium.

Library Schools

• Directory of Institutions Offering Accredited Masters Programs in Library and Information Studies -- From ALA.
• Library Science School Rankings -- From U.S. News & World Report
• World List of Departments and Schools of Information Studies, Information Management, and Information Systems

Professional Associations

• American Library Association
• American Society for Information Science
• Art Libraries Society of North America
• Association for Image and Image Management
• Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALA)
• Association of College and Research Libraries (ALA)
• Association of Research Libraries
• Coalition for Networked Information
• Council on Library and Information Resources
• EDUCAUSE
• Greater Western Library Alliance
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
• Iowa ACRL
• Iowa Library Association
• Library Administration and Management Association (ALA)
• Library and Information Technology Association (ALA)
• Music Library Association
• National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
• North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG)
• Reference and User Services Association (ALA)
• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
• Society of American Archivists
• Special Libraries Association

Publishers and Vendors

• AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
• AddAll -- A free resource that allows the user to compare the book prices of 41 online book sellers.
• alibris -- New, used and hard-to-find titles.
• American Booksellers Association
• The Bookhouse -- The ANY BOOK IN PRINT vendor, with over 100,000 different publishing sources.
• Bookwire
• PubList -- A database of over 150,000 domestic and international periodicals and publishers.
• Publishers' Catalogs -- Links to thousands of publishers' websites as well as information on each publisher.
• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory -- Information on serial publications.
• VLB Datenbanken -- Database with search engine for information about books currently being offered by publishers in German-speaking countries. World Wide Web version of German Books in Print (Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bucher).

Other Resources

• Academic Library Peer Comparison Chart -- From the National Center for Education Statistics, this site allows the user to get information on a particular library, or to customize a peer group to view customized reports of the comparisons between the library of interest and its peers on a variety of variables.
• All that Jas: Journal Abbreviation Sources -- A registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations.
• Bobby -- An HTML validating tool for access to Web sites for persons with disabilities.
• BUBL LINK: 020 Library and Information Sciences -- General site for library and information sciences.
• Cataloguer's Toolbox -- A collection of cataloging resources from the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
• The Center for Social Informatics -- Social informatics refers to the research and study into the social aspects of computerization. This Center supports research in Social Informatics.
• A Communications Handbook for Libraries -- A handbook for librarians to develop media relations and win support for libraries.
• Conservation Online (CoOL) -- A collection of resources for conservation librarians from the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries.
• Contacts for Book/Journal Donations -- A listing of websites for donating books or journals both nationally and internationally.
• Cool Librarians -- Descriptions of librarians, both fact and fiction, who defy librarian stereotypes.
• CyberStacks -- A collection of significant WWW resources arranged by LC classification.
• Digital Library Federation -- Web-searchable database of the Digital Library Federation members' public-domain, online digital collections.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) -- A directory and search engine for free, full-text, aopen-access scientific and scholarly electronic journals.
• DLIST, the Digital Library of Information Science and Technology -- A collaborative project between the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science and the Arizona Health Sciences Library, DLIST aspires to be a Web-accessible, open, digital repository for Library and Information Science and Information Technology, a virtual intellectual commons for LIS and IT. Includes articles and conference papers, but also information literacy instruction materials, staff training guides, pathfinders, bibliographies and database guides.
• Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography -- Deals with all aspects of electronic publishing and includes print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. Over 1,000 items were identified and indexed in great detail for this project. Thousands of URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) were added to various entries. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated. The Electronic Sources of Information is accompanied by the Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Resources.
• Electronic Reserves Clearinghouse -- A collection of resources for designers of electronic reserves services.
• Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology -- Comprehensive coverage of critical issues related to information science and technology.
• E-resources Management Handbook -- An overview of the use of e-resources and guidelines for handling them in libraries.
• Humbul: Museums, Libraries, Archives -- A directory of museums, archives & libraries internationally.
• IC Sci-Bytes: What's New in Research -- From ISI, contains ranking of high impact research universities and journals ranked by impact in select disciplines.
• Information Literacy on the WWW -- From Florida International University Libraries, a comprehensive resource for information on library efforts for information literacy.
• Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries -- Links to library Web sites which illustrate innovative internet applications in various categories such as personalized interfaces, e-journals, tutorials/guides, and virtual tours.
• Internet Library for Librarians -- A guide to Internet resources related to the library profession.
• Internet Library of Early Journals -- ILEF, the 'Internet Library of Early Journals' is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aims to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data.
• Keeping Up -- From Steven Bell, a great Website for librarians and other information professionals, with sites divided into categories. According to Bell, "A central, guiding premise of this web site is that academic librarians and technology professionals must go beyond the constraints of their own literature to really keep up and maintain their myriad skills and diversified knowledge base," so many of the sites listed do not really directly relate to the field of library science.
• Librarian's Resource Center -- A useful collection of Web resources for librarians, including ready reference resources, subject specific resources, and resources for professional development.
• Librarians' Toolbox -- A listing of web pages that OCLC users access most often, including cataloging tools, ILL tools, FirstSearch tools, and a guide to searching WorldCat.
• Librarian's Yellow Pages -- A buying guide for librarians.
• Libraries & Scholarly Communication -- "highlights trends affecting the process of creating, disseminating, retrieving, and using information for instruction and research at the university level."
• Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web -- Links to online exhibitions created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, focused primarily on library and archival materials.
• Library and Information Science Resources -- Includes links to library organizations, schools, journals, vendors, online catalogs, conferences, national libraries, and other resources of interest to the library profession.
• Library Conference Planner -- Links to library conference websites, national and international, as well as to accommodations and airlines, and other interesting information.
• ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science -- A good reference source for defining terms that librarians may encounter in their work.
• The On-line Books Page Presents Banned Books On-Line -- Contains listing of banned books with links to their full-text versions plus a brief history of banned books in the United States.
• Open Access Bibliography
• Perception of Libraries and Information Resources -- Examines the information seeking habits and preferences of international college students.
• Reference Resources -- A listing of hundreds of reference reference resources arranged by subject.
• The Researching Librarian -- A compilation of Web resources helpful for librarians doing research with the categories: databases, funding, journals, statistics, tools, awareness, and proceedings.
• The Resource Shelf -- News and resources for information professionals. Updated daily.
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography -- Contains over 2,000 entries on scholarly publishing from a variety of scholarly and professional journals. Created by Charles W. Bailey, Jr., at the University of Houston.
• State of America's Libraries -- The American Library Association's report on the library of today.
• Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging -- A great introduction to MARC for the non-expert.
• Warrior Librarian -- A list of links to resources that fight the stereotypical image of librarians.

Revised September, 2003
For comments and suggestions:
Rebecca Jackson
rjackson@iastate.edu

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