Recommended Databases
- ALA Techsource This link opens in a new window
Publications for Library and Information Sciences from the American Library Association.
- Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of children's books, reviews, awards and teaching materials. Reviews 3,000 books annually covering 24 sources since 1993.
- ERIC EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
ERIC Uses the EBSCO search screen interface. ERIC is the world's largest source of information on education and provides indexing and abstracting for articles and documents from 1966 onward.
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new windowBibliographic database providing free coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online info retrieval, information management and more.
- Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new windowA bibliographic database that indexes key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere from 1984 to the present. Books, chapters within books, conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed.
- Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective: 1905-1983 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new windowLibrary Literature & Information Science Retrospective (1905-1983) is a bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. This is a companion database to Library Literature & Information Science Full Text.
- Publisher's Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books This link opens in a new window
Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books provides virtual access to a collection of decorative book bindings from the 19th and early 20th century, along with new and creative scholarship, research and teaching materials for the study and appreciation of the book.
Open-Access Peer-Reviewed Journals
- International Journal of LibrarianshipPublished by the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), IJoL is an open access, refereed journal of research and discussion dealing with all aspects of library, librarianship and information science, throughout the world.
- In the Library with a Lead PipeIn the Library with the Lead Pipe is an open access, open peer reviewed journal founded and run by an international team of librarians working in various types of libraries. In addition to publishing articles and editorials by Editorial Board members, Lead Pipe publishes articles by authors representing diverse perspectives including educators, administrators, library support staff, technologists, and community members.
- Journal of New LibrarianshipAn independent, open-access journal that seeks to provide a publishing venue for emerging and interdisciplinary scholarship that does not fit within the narrow subject specialization of existing journals.