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All Academic-- "Guide to free academic resources on-line," featuring abstracts of and links to professional quality scholarly publications, with a sophisticated search engine and standard bibliographical formats.
COPAC-- A union catalogue that "provides FREE access to the merged online catalogues of 22 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland PLUS the British Library."
European Commission Libraries Catalogue (ECLAS)-- Bibliographical references for hundreds of thousands of publications on European affairs, but without document delivery or copy service. Also note the useful internet resources search facility on the topic of European integration.
European Union Libraries and European Documentation Centres-- Central locator site maintained by the European Commission's unit responsible for libraries and European Documentation Centres, "an essential tool for librarians, documentalists and researchers working on European material."
FindArticles.com-- Free article-search service, for quality online full-text articles in over 350 leading magazines
and journals, by keyword and subject category.
Gabriel-- Gateway to Europe's national libraries, a single point of access for the retrieval of information about their functions, services, and collections, with a search engine for all the WWW services of the national libraries.
Gateway to Library Catalogs-- From the U.S. Library of Congress, allows access to and search of the Library of Congress catalog, plus links to many academic and national libraries.
Global Library-- Very useful "reference collection of online texts for students of the social sciences. It links open-access texts from across the web." From the Global Site of the University of Sussex, a fine "critical gateway to world politics, society, and culture," with online texts, reviews, global library, subject guides, and links.
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog-- "Meta search interface which allows you to access library catalogs via WWW. It starts a simultaneous search in the German union catalogs and gives you a standardized hit list," from scores of millions of book and serials titles holdings in major libraries and book trade catalogs in several European countries and the United States. From the Library of the Universität Karlsruhe, Germany.
Libdex-- Searchable worldwide index of thousands of library homepages, web-based OPACs, "friends of the
library" pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links, from Peter Scott of the University of Saskatchewan Library.
Libraries-online-- "This site attempts to provide gateway for users to access the global pool of knowledge provided by libraries, universities and research centres across the globe," by linking to major libraries and library directories.
Library Spot-- From StartSpot, listings of many types of online libraries, plus links to reference sites.
Libweb: Library Servers via WWW-- Links to thousands of library Web servers in scores of countries, from the University of California at Berkeley.
Military Education and Research Library Network (MERLN)-- The searchable joint site of military education libraries in the United States (mainly) and Europe, providing access to the library holdings and online information resources of the "largest and most comprehensive collections of military information resources in the world." Note the section on Online Publications Military Policy Awareness Links are current listings of quality online information and analysis sources published by the National Defense University Library as a current awareness service on major topics of U.S. military policy.

National Library Catalogues Worldwide-- From the University of Queensland Library, Australia, a listing of online national library catalogues alphabetically by country, with instructions on how to connect to each catalogue.

Policy Library-- An excellent social, economic, and foreign policy site, with a large database of free, online full-text studies from leading research organizations. Many international affairs papers included, plus links to major research sources.

Public Libraries of Europe-- Strives to provide a complete listing of public library Website links by country, for all of Europe.

UNESCO Libraries Portal-- Links to library and library association websites worldwide, and to topics of interest to librarians. Searchable.

Universal Library-- From Carnegie Mellon University, a major directory for online access to a wide variety of literature (books and periodicals), images, multimedia, lectures, and bibliographies.

Web Accessible National and Major Libraries-- From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, a large listing of links, including digital libraries.

WWW Library Directory-- Indexes thousands of online libraries and library-related Web sites in over 100 countries.

Some Major Libraries

• Australian Libraries Gateway-- From the National Library of Australia, a directory of and access to the online catalogs of nearly all the academic, public, and special libraries in Australia, Australian publishers and booksellers, and Australian subject gateways.

• British Library Website-- Online service of the British Library. Note especially theBritish Library Public Catalogue, which "provides simple searching and ordering of documents from the British Library's extensive collections."

• Electronic Books-- From the University of Texas Libraries, a directory of annotated links to books available online, including in languages other than English.

• INFOMINE-- From the University of California, a comprehensive virtual library and reference tool with highly useful scholarly Internet resources, including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles, and directories of researchers, among many other types of information. Built by librarians.

• Internet Public Library-- Answers for questions in many subjects.

• Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva-- Site allows access to information on Library holdings (searchable online catalog), recent acquisitions, archives, bibliographies, publications, e-resources, U.N. system resources, special events, and more.

• U.S. Library of Congress site has a wealth of useful online resources. The Global Gateway is a good place to start, with its Research Guides and Databases and Portals to the World, "selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world." Look through the Country Studies On-Line. Try Especially for Researchers (particularly "International Collections") and the Online Catalog. The Gateway to Library Catalogs allows access to and search of the Library of Congress catalog, plus links to many academic and national libraries.

• University of Ulster Library-- Especially helpful with Northern Ireland and United Kingdom information. Look for the CAIN Web Service (Conflict Archive on the INternet), on the Northern Ireland conflict since 1968.