Verification Tools: Library Catalogs and Bibliographic Utilities

• General Lists
  • BookWhere 2000 - Available Databases, Z39.50 compliant hosts
  • HYTELNET Historical list of telnet-accessible library catalogs by Peter Scott. No longer maintained.
  • 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
  • Libweb : Library Servers via WWW from Thomas Dowling
  • The WWW Library Directory from Mike Sauers

• Lists of National Libraries
  • Gabriel Gateway to Europe's 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
• The Center for Research Libraries
• ECLAS: The European Commission Library Catalogue
• HOLLIS Harvard University
• Karlsruher Virtuelle Katalog (KVK)
• Library of Congress Home Page
  • 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
Telnet access for users with account(s) and password(s):

• OCLC (see also: OCLC's home page)
• RLIN (see also: RLG's home page)
• WLN (see also: WLN's home page)