Opacs and union catalogues
The Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the United
Kingdom (HERO) website provides a wide-ranging list of worldwide
resources and OPACs:
www.hero.ac.uk/uk/reference_and_subject_resources/
resources/worldwide_library_resources3796.cfm
The English Short Title Catalogue
http://estc.bl.uk/
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UK & Ireland
BOPAC (Z39.50 search of selected university OPACs)
www.bopac2.comp.brad.ac.uk/~bopac2/egwcgi.cgi/egwirtcl/mtargets.egw/1+0
British Library Integrated Catalogue
http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list
CAIRNS (Z39.50 search of public, university and other libraries
in Scotland)
http://cairns.lib.strath.ac.uk/
COPAC (Union catalogue of major UK university and national
collections)
www.copac.ac.uk
IRIS (Union catalogue of Irish university libraries)
www.iris.ie
M25 (London and South East England HE libraries)
www.m25lib.ac.uk/Link/
Riding (Yorkshire HE plus BLDSC, OU, Lincoln)
http://riding.hostedbyfdi.net/riding/index.html
The London Library
www.londonlibrary.co.uk
Links to the OPACs of UK public libraries
www.harden.dial.pipex.com/weblibs.html
WiLL (London Public Libraries)
www.londonlibraries.org.uk/will/Categories.aspx
Northern Ireland Public Libraries
http://opac.ni-libraries.net/cgi-bin/nireland.vps.sh
Mapping Asia in UK Libraries
www.asiamap.ac.uk/index.php
Revealweb (Materials for the Visually Impaired)
www.revealweb.org.uk
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Serials
SUNCAT (Serials union catalogue covering the holdings of
BL and some universities, with links to ISSN records)
http://edina.ac.uk/suncat/
LAMDA (Serials in some HE libraries in Manchester, Leeds,
London)
http://lamda.mimas.ac.uk/
SALSER (Scottish HE and National libraries serials)
http://edina.ed.ac.uk/salser/
M25 (Serials in HE libraries in London and SouthEast England)
www.m25lib.ac.uk/ULS/
ABTAPL – Theological and Philosophical Libraries serials
list
www.le.ac.uk/abtapl/aba.html
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Italian journals
http://ipcat.leeds.ac.uk
North West Libraries Interlending Partnership Periodical and Journal Holdings Database
www.lancashire.gov.uk/NWLInterlending
ARLIS (art journals)
http://ipac.nal.vam.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=arlisnet#focusfocus
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Music
International Association of Music Libraries UK and Ireland,
and access to the music union catalogue Encore
www.iaml-uk-irl.org
National Library of Scotland
www.nls.uk/professional/interlibraryservices/services/music_interlending.html
Cecilia
www.cecilia-uk.org/html
Music Publishers Association
www.mpaonline.org.uk
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Maps
British Library
hwww.bl.uk/collections/maps.html
Ordnance Survey
www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
National Library of Scotland
www.nls.uk/maps
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Audio-visual material
British Universities Film and Video Council
www.bufvc.ac.uk
British Film Institute
www.bfi.org.uk
Libweb Index - lists national, university, college
and major public libraries worldwide.
http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/
IFLA List of Union Catalogues
www.ifla.org/VI/2/duc/index.htm
Worldcat. Libraries in higher and further education, and
members of OCLC and LinkUK, have access to Worldcat, which
covers hundreds of libraries in the US and Canada, and also
some collections in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Australasia:
www.oclc.org/worldcat/default.htm
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue - fast simultaneous searching of
a number of national libraries and union catalogues worldwide
www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/en/kvk.html
National Library Catalogues Worldwide - links alphabetically
by country www.library.uq.edu.au/natlibs/
GABRIEL - European National Libraries' OPACs.
http://libraries.theeuropeanlibrary.org/libraries_en.xml
ComElcat - Hungarian academic library catalogues
www.kozelkat.iif.hu/index.english.html
Italian OPAC Direct - connects Italian universities
and research site
www.aib.it/aib/opac/repertorio.htm
Library of Congress - an interface to the millions
of records
http://catalog.loc.gov/
Proquest Digital Dissertations - US, Canada, and others:
http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway
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