Verification Tools: Library Catalogs and Bibliographic Utilities

MAJOR LISTS OF CATALOGS

General Lists

• BookWhere 2000 - Available Databases, Z39.50 compliant hosts
  
• lib-web-cats, library web pages, online catalogs, and system profiles; Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University
  
• LibDex - The Library Index, international directory of library homepages, web-based OPACs, Friends of the Library pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links, by Peter Scott

Lists of National Libraries

• National Library Catalogues Worldwide, by John W. East, University of Queensland Library
  
• WWW Accessible National Libraries of the World, IFLA
  

LINKS TO SPECIFIC LARGE CATALOGS

• Bibliothèque nationale de France
  
• BIBSYS, the Norwegian shared library system
  
• The British Library Public Catalogue
  
• COPAC, national OPAC with unified access to some of the largest university research libraries in the UK & Ireland
  
• HOLLIS, Harvard University
  
• Karlsruher Virtuelle Katalog, (KVK)
  
• Library of Congress
  
  • Library of Congress Online Catalog
    
  • Z39.50 Gateway, access to catalogs of LC and other US libraries
• MELVYL, University of California
  
• Military Education and Research Library Network, (MERLN)
  
• OLIS: Oxford University Libraries
  

BIBLIOGRAPHIC UTILITIES
Access for users with account(s) and password(s):

• OCLC, (see also: OCLC's home page)