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  • AACR2. Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR2.
  • Abbey Information Systems. Information products company e.g. ActiveTEXT.
  • ABC-CLIO. Specializes in the publication of easy-to-use print reference sources on high-interest topics. Including authoritative subject dictionaries and encyclopedias.
  • Absearch biological literature databases.
  • AcqWeb. Top resource on all aspects of library acquisitions. See also Library acquisitions.
  • Access Information Recruitment. UK recruitment agency for information professionals. See also job vacancies notice board.
  • Access Information. Business information, including information retrieval and records management
  • Access Innovations. Premier provider of information & document management support services.
  • Access Russia. Information and translation company and document delivery services of publications from libraries and information centres in Russia, republics in the former USSR and Eastern Europe. See also Andrigal.
  • AccuNet. Photo archive. The most comprehensive archive of historical and contemporary pictures available to K-12, colleges, and public libraries. More than 325,000 Associated Press photos on the Internet.
  • Accounting databases. Huge collection of accountancy search engines. Includes US General Accounting Office, US Internal Revenue Service, US Treasury, and British Government Tax related databases. See also taxbase, and US GPO databases.
  • Acronym Finder. Database of more than 127,000 acronyms/abbreviations and their meanings. The database contains acronyms in many languages including: French, German, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, and others. It can be searched using wildcards for both acronyms and within meanings, and keywords within meanings.
  • Adis International. Drug, pharmaceutical and biomedical information and providers of peer-reviewed international journals and newsletters on disease management, drug therapy decision-making and healthcare education. See also PJB and Current Drugs.
  • Adlib Information Systems. Library automation products company, e.g. Adlib library automation/management system.
  • ADONIS. Article Delivery Over Network Information Systems. Biomedical, scientific document delivery service, and electronic journal subscription service. Some other such services listed in Info Connect are: British Library Document Suppy Centre, Faxon, UMI, CIS, Swets, Linda Hall Library, Infotrieve, Blackwell's Electronic Journals Navigator, Catchword, EMDOCS, Information Quest, Doc Deliver, OCLC Electronic Collections Online, CISTI, CAS DDS, The Genuine Article, Doc Deliver, EBSCO Online, Information Express, EDRS (ERIC) and Uncover. See also Document Delivery Finder and Electronic Journal services.
  • Advanced Information Consultants. A team of highly skilled and experienced information specialists designed to help companies find information in such diverse fields as biomedicine, science, technology, government, law and business.
  • Advanced Information Databases. Official US and Canadian gateway for the databases of the European Union.
  • Advanced Information Management, AIM. US Recruitment agency for librarians and information professionals. See also job vacancies notice board.
  • African Publishers' Network. See also Zimbabwe International Book Fair.
  • African Newspapers. Over 200 newspapers from Africa, on the web. See also world newspapers.
  • Argus Clearinghouse. Central access point to more than 1,200 topic-specific guides to Internet resources, each of which is critically evaluated. See also Library and Information Science professional resources.
  • AGI-Information Management Consultants. Germany.
  • Alex. Electronic catalogue of books on the Internet, with over 2000 entries.
  • Alexandria Library. Egypt. Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Part of UNESCO programme. Web site includes virtual images of the newly restored ancient library in still images and 3D (using Java applets), plus historical resources.
  • Algerian Research Centre on Scientific and Technical Information. CERIST.
  • Alibris. Online source for libraries seeking used, second hand, out-of-stock, rare and out-of-print books. See also 21 North Main (at "T" links), UK BookWorld, and Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America.
  • All-Links Index to over 3000 newspapers worldwide. See also World newspapers.
  • Amadeus. Airline reservation GDS (global distribution system) database. See also Sabre, Galileo and Worldspan.
  • Amazon. Online bookshop, with access to the latest new books published in the US. See also Barnes & Noble.
  • American Association of Law Libraries. See also British and Irish Association of Law Librarians, and worldwide law libraries.
  • American Association of Law Libraries. Telnet. Login as 'aallnet'
  • American National Council For Open Education Based in Washington, D.C.
  • American Business Information. Info USA. Includes access to business information resources such as American Yellow pages. See also US Yellow Pages and WorldPages.
  • American Chemical Society, ACS, ChemCenter database system. Includes access to online ACS journals and Chemical patents database. See also Chemical Abstracts Service.
  • American Economics Association database. One of the world's foremost source of information on economics.
  • American Forces Information Service. See also US DefenseLink.
  • American Geographical Society Library. Golda Meir Library. Largest of its kind in the world.
  • American Institute of Physics Journals and Electronic Service.
  • American Indian Library Association, AILA.
  • American Libraries magazine.
  • American Library Association, ALA.
  • American Library in Paris. France.
  • American University of Beirut Libraries. Lebanon.
  • American University Library in Cairo. Egypt.
  • American Medical Informatics Association, AMIA.
  • American Medical Association Doctor/Physician database. Search by name or medical speciality.
  • American Mathematical Society. Mathematical databases producer. Includes access to MathSciNet.
  • American Museum of Natural History Library.
  • American Museum of Natural History Web OPAC
  • American Museum of Natural History library NIMIDI OPAC Telnet. Login as "library" and simply hit "enter" or "return" at the password prompt.
  • American National Standards Institute, ANSI. Includes updates on Z39.50/NISO and access to Standards Information Databases. See also BSI and ISO.
  • American Numismatic Association Library. Dedicated to the collection and study of coins, paper money, tokens and medals.
  • American Petroleum Institute, API databases. Crude oil production database producer e.g APILIT. See also Petroleum Abstracts.
  • API EnCompass information service.
  • American Philatelic Research Library.
  • American Philosophical Society. Major national center for research in the history of science, medicine, and technology.
  • American Society for Indexers, ASI. See also Society of Indexers UK.
  • American Society of International Law Library.
  • American Society for Information Science, ASIS. The UK equivalent is the Institute of Information Scientists.
  • ASIS, European chapter. See European Information Science Professional Organizations.
  • American Society Health System Pharmacists ASHP. Access to the latest published information on drug development, and online databases. Produces International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, Drug Information Full Text, and MedAxon.
  • American Theological Library Association, ATLA.
  • American Type Culture Collection ATCC databases. Includes bacteriology, bacteriohages, virology, plant tissue cultures, fungi, yeasts, protozoa, algae, as well as clones, microbial culture media, hosts, vectors and oligonucleotides. Each search result includes the ATCC number. See also World Data Center for Micro-organisms, Microbial Strain Data Network, microbiology databases, Yeast genome databases and viruses databases.
  • America Online AOL. Database host.
  • Ameritech Library Services. Library products company. See also Dynix.
  • AMIGOS Bibliographic Council. US regional library network. Based in Dallas Texas.
  • Anbar Electronic Intelligence. CD-ROM, on-line and hardcopy products. Delivers fast, intelligent management, computing and civil engineering.
  • Andrigal Information service company providing access (in English) to scientific, biomedical and technical Russian databases, serials and other information sources. Includes document delivery and the Internet Library Service. Based in Moscow. See also Access Russia.
  • Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, ABAA. Trade body for dealers in rare, used, second-hand, ancient books and manuscripts. See also Alibris and 21 North Main (at "T" links).
  • Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Australia and New Zealand.
  • Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Britain.
  • Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada.
  • Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Germany.
  • Antiquarian Booksellers Association of France.
  • Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Italy.
  • Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Japan.
  • Apex Data Services. Database conversion specialists.
  • Ap Information Services. UK's leading business directory publisher.
  • Applied Information Science. Information consultancy and management services.
  • ArchivesUSA. Integrated collection and repository information. See also Search America.
  • Archival Repositories on the Internet In Canada, Australia, the European Union, Ireland, Italy and the US.
  • ArchiText Online. Publisher of ArchiText Construction Index, an annotated index of articles covering over 50 journals relating to architecture, building design, and the construction industry.
  • Ardito Information & Research. Has instant communication with hundreds of powerful databases, libraries, and specialists in multiple disciplines.
  • Library Association of Argentina. Asociacion de Bibliotecarios Graduados de la Republica Argentina, ABGRA.
  • Argentine Economic and Social Sciences Bibliographic and Information Network.
  • Argentine National Institute of Agricultural Technology, INTA. Library and information services.
  • Argentine Judicial Information System. Sistema Argentino de Inform�tica Jur�dica.
  • Argentine Yellow Pages.
  • Ariadne. The newsletter is aimed initially at subject librarians and other working librarians in academic libraries. See also LIS Journals.
  • Aries Systems Corporation. The makers of Knowledge Finder, providing access to medical literature and reference databases. See also PaperChase.
  • Art Libraries Society of North America, ARLIS.
  • Arts and humanities information resources. Yahoo. See also UK arts and humanities resources.
  • Art database.
  • Asian Librarians' Forum. Now called Asia Information Professional Forum. See also Council for South East Asian Libraries and Conference of Directors of National Libraries of Asia and Oceania.
  • Asia-Pacific library directory. A list of major libraries in the Asia-Pacific region. See also world libraries.
  • Asian Newspapers. Over 350 newspapers from Asia (including the Middle East) on the web. See also world newspapers.
  • Asia-Pacific.Com. A new web site for Asia Pacific business research, providing timely strategic business information on the Asia-Pacific with access to data, experts, news, analysis, and other resources.
  • Asia-Pacific Yellow Pages. See also world yellow pages.
  • Askews Library Services.
  • Ask a Librarian. UK's electronic reference librarian. Send a library related or general reference question, and get an answer via e-mail in 48 hours.
  • Ask Jeeves. Electronic reference librarian.
  • Aslib, the Association for Information Management UK. Includes a list of library and information science publications.
  • Aslib Current Awareness Abstracts periodical. See also LIS Journals.
  • Aslib Managing Information periodical.
  • Aslib Recruitment. See also job vacancies notice board.
  • Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa, AHILA. Gopher.
  • Association of American Publishers.
  • Association of American University Presses, AAUP.
  • Association of British Theological and Philosophical Libraries.
  • Association of Christian Librarians. ACL consists of over four hundred individual members and over sixty institutional members working in the academic library community worldwide.
  • Association of College and Research Libraries, ACRL. See also InfoEN.
  • Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers. UK.
  • Association of European Research Libraries LIBER. Principal association of the major research libraries of Europe.
  • Association of Information and Dissemination Centres.
  • Association of Independent Information Professionals, AIIP. An international association of owners of information businesses.
  • Association of Information Officers in the Pharmaceutical Industry. AIOPI. For information scientists and librarians who work for pharmaceutical companies in the UK.
  • Association of Jewish Libraries, AJL. See also Israeli/Jewish academic libraries.
  • Association of London Chief Librarians, ALCL.
  • Association for Library and Information Science Education, ALISE. U.S. equivalent of Britain's BAILER.
  • Association of Part-time Librarians.
  • Association of Professionals in Information and Documentation, ADBS. French LIS organisation.
  • Association of Research Libraries, ARL.
  • AUSINET. Australia's major national online information retrieval service that provides a series of premium databases containing the complete text of newspapers, magazines and specialist data.
  • Association of Swiss Librarians and Libraries. See also Swiss libraries.
  • Australian Bibliographic Network, ABN.Includes access to the National Bibliographic Database.
  • Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services, ACLIS.
  • Council of Australian University Librarians, CAUL.
  • Australia information resources.
  • Australian Federal Libraries Information Network, FLIN
  • Australian Legal Information Centre. Covers both federal and state laws. See also legal information resources and world legal databases.
  • Australian Legal Information Institute
  • Australian Library and Information Association, ALIA.
  • Australian libraries gateway. ALG. Access to all library web sites in Australia.
  • PressCom Australia. Full-text electronic database of selected Australian newspaper publications.
  • Australian LIS schools. See world LIS schools.
  • Australian National University Electronic Library Information Service, ANUELIS. Gopher.
  • Australian Parliamentary Library.
  • Australian Society of Indexers, ASI.
  • Australian Yellow Pages
  • Austrian academic and scientific library OPACs.
  • Datakom. Austrian business and trade information services.
  • Austrian Library Association. Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare.
  • Austrian public library directory.
  • Austrian Society for Documentation and Information. Österreichischer Gesellschaft fur Dokumentation und Information.
  • Austrian university medical libraries . Includes a list of German medical libraries as well.
  • Austrian Yellow Pages. Gelbe Seiten.
  • Autobiblio. Bibliographic database. Others listed in Info Connect are: Citation, EndNote, Reference Manager, Library Master, Bookends, GetARef, ProCite, Idealist, Papyrus, Refsys Super, BibDB, bibIX, BiblioCite Pro, BookWhere, Biblioscape, PowerRef, Nota Bene, Bibliographica, Experbib Biblogic, VCH Biblio, and dms4cite.
  • Auto-Graphics. Library automation products company.
  • Automated Library and Information eXchange, ALIX. Telnet. The ALIX Bulletin Board System outside the Internet is on modem phone no: (202) 707 4888, in Washington D.C.
  • Automated Library Systems, ALS. Library automation products company, e.g. Meritus library automation system.
  • Autonomy Systems. Knowledge management systems.


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