Books and Authors
Offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic, cutting edge user interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun! By leveraging our entire award-winning What Do I Read Next? collection, patrons and students alike can be sure that their next big read comes with a BIG recommendation.

Booklist Online -    American Library Association                      1992 -                       Updated biweekly
A searchable / browseable database of  more than 120,000 reviews. 8,000 recommended-only reviews of books, audiobooks, reference sources, video, and DVD titles are added each year. Spotlight issues provide coverage on popular genres, topics and themes such as biography, young adult, multicultural literature, graphic novels, romance, sports, and much more.

WorldCat Database (OCLC Union Catalog) - OCLC  11th Century -     Updated Daily.
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 39 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings  information from the world's libraries. FirstSearch / Search Guide

Booksellers:

• Abebooks.com the world's largest online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books.

Abebooks connects those who buy books with those who sell them.
• Amazon.com Online bookstore with over 12 million book and music items for sale or auction. Searchable by Author, Title, Subject.
• Barnes and Noble Online bookstore with over 8 million titles. Searchable by Author, Title, Subject. Includes a searchable Out-of-Print section.
• Bibliofind  Database of 7 million out-of-print books. The Seven million old, used and rare books are offered here for sale by three thousand booksellers around the world make this the largest and possibly the most interesting bookselling site on the Web. Searchable by Author, Title, Publisher.
• Alibris (Formerly Interloc). Database and global computer network for locating used, rare, and hard-to-find books. Database contains over 4 million out-of-print books, maps, autographs, and ephemera.
• Publisher's Catalogs  Links to the catalogs of U.S. Publishers and University Presses and Foreign Publishers.
• Textbooks.com    Buy college textbooks online. Offers  used textbooks, new textbooks, study guides and CDs. Also buys your textbooks in the textbook buyback area.
• efollett Online Bookstore  New and used college textbooks.
• Chegg  Sells and rents textbooks, including etextbooks.. Also buys used textbooks. Offers course reviews and grade distributions as well as homework help for all courses

• New York Times Books Includes the complete Sunday Book Review, daily book related news and reviews, a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews, bestseller lists, and more. Registration required.
• New York Review of Books  Includes a complete, searchable index of the magazine's contents from 1963 to the present plus the full text of all pieces published in the Review since November 1996. Fees are charged for older material in the Archives.
• Boston Globe: Book Reviews
• Chicago Sun-Times Books   Reviews by book editor and author Henry Kisor.
• Chicago Tribune Books
• Los Angeles Times Book Review
• Arts & Letters DailyAn updated report of news and reviews; covers philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, trends, breakthroughs, ideas, criticism, culture, history, art, disputes, and gossip.
• Scitech Daily Review  Provides links to science and technology articles including Books and Media Reviews, Features and Background articles, and Analysis and Opinion articles.
• London Review of Books  Online edition of a semi-monthly book review from England. Provides full text articles, reviews, and letters to the editor and a review archive back to 1997. Good source for reviews of British books and authors.

TextBooks

The Textbook League   Provides independent, expert appraisals of textbooks that publishers are selling to schools right now.  The Textbook League was established in 1989 to support the creation and acceptance of sound schoolbooks. Their chief activity is the publication of The Textbook Letter (or TTL), a bimonthly bulletin that is mailed to subscribers throughout the United States. Tables of contents are available on the web site.

Textbook,org  This free site allows users to check the inventory of 45+ popular bookstores (like Amazon, Half, & Chegg) with one simple search, and compare prices on all available new, used and rental textbooks on one page.

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National Technical Information Service (NTIS) -           1990-              Updated Daily
Searchable database containing references to 370,000 technical publications, datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual material added to the NTIS collection since 1990.    WWW 

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