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Useful Book / Periodical /Online Resources Most links should be working now, but changes are frequent. Very useful for book searches.
This page was created many years ago and was very helpful when we needed to find books. It was updated several times but not at all during the past two years. Currently Amazon and le dominate book searching but they do not find and/or sell all books. We have found the links below to be useful in our searches. These sources may or may not sell publications. We are not responsible for what you find when you go through a link. However, if a link doesn't work or you feel you have been treated badly by the people linked to, do tell us. If you find a link to be especially helpful or you want to suggest another useful link, we would really like to hear from you.

Our primary interest is English, but several of the sites listed also work in other languages: FR = French, GE = German, IT = Italian, SP = Spanish

Did you find an ONLINE BOOK through a link on the right side of this page that you want? Many of the books are classics that cannot be found in print at bookstores.
Many are FREE and available online in PDF or other format. If you do not have a good, fast printer, you may have trouble printing hundreds or thousands of pages. We can assist but there will be a charge for the printing and delivery to you. You MUST tell us the exact book you want and exactly where you found it. We are in Japan; so we usually provide this service only to customers in Japan. Tell us by email what you want and we will reply with a price and payment instruction.

First place to look for any book that is hard to find.

UK version of the above.

Superb source for the hard to find.

Also try search boxes at bottom of this page.

Surely one of the best bookstores in the world and a solid resource. Not just many books, but many of the best both new and old. POWELLS.

Not just old books but historic .. Asian Rare Books

Also use for finding used/old books http://www.bookfinder.com/

Bibliophile http://www.bookbase.com

Offers help by humans to find what you need. http://booklook.com/

Book seller of texts etc. Worth a look. http://bigwords.com

Didn't really like this site but found one book here that we had missed at other sources http://www.gohastings.com/

American Library Association, a lot of good info if you have patience http://www.ala.org/

Liked this one; lots of links and BEST SELLER info http://www.bookspot.com/

Textbook swap and more http://www.swapbooks.com

I may hate myself for telling you about this one http://www.addall.com/

Recently found this and recommend trying http://www.bublos.com/index.html

Search for title and compare prices http://www.bestbookbuys.com/

Liked this once but has changed. http://www.1bookstreet.com

No books, but this is a great place for searching for pictures http://www.ditto.com/

Antiquarian source for Asian books. Gone downhill recently. http://www.rareorientbooks.com/

Look here for booksellers and publishers in UK & Ireland. http://bookweb.co.uk/

Good UK source. Is W H Smith. http://www.bookshop.co.uk/

British option for books - http://www.bol.com also China, GE, IT, Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland.

And one in Canada http://www.chapters.ca

A few old books relating to Japan are available online via the Gutenberg Project. Over 17,000 free books. http://www.gutenberg.net/

I liked the name of this one and it may be best when looking up ISBNs. http://www.isbn.nu

Book search and service. http://www.anybook.com

Magazine & Journal Resources
If you know of good sources, please tell us.

Oxbridge's online website will help anyone looking for an American magazine or newsletter. Over 70,000 titles in MediaFinder. http://www.oxbridge.com/

ISI Master Journal List. Huge list of scientific publications and contact info. http://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER

Library of Congress search http://www.loc.gov

Magazines: sells single copies (list price + $0.25 per mag + $1.00 per order) http://www.magsnow.com/

Magazine, Journal articles and Conference papers http://www3.infotrieve.com/

Biggest List for just finding periodicals http://www.publist.com/

Are You an Author Publisher?

POD. For writers looking for a publisher http://www.rosedog.com/

For writers and publisher contracts http://www.authorlink.com/

Some detailed and good info here on publishing, bestsellers, etc http://www.bookwire.com (Bowker/Reed)

In Japan/Japanese

Try this for searching for Japanese books available in Japan. http://www.books.or.jp/.

Kanda is the center of Japan's book trade http://www.book-kanda.or.jp/

Not just books- search the world

Tremendous list of search engines: http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/

Academic papers search

Perhaps very useful and certain to get better: http://allacademic.com

Library websites search

A great source for finding major libraries around the world: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/

OCLC FirstSearch (this page is useful to find which contributing database contain info on specific periodical titles: http://www2.oclc.org/oclc/fs/fstitle/

California Digital Library - helpful for finding books/periodicals in Cal Libs http://melvyl.cdlib.org

Asian Studies Search Engines - Pt1 http://www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html

Inbox Robot - a great way to find news on anything/anywhere http://www.inboxrobot.com

Giant list of Publisher contact info - http://www.lights.com/publisher/

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infotrieve http://www4.infotrieve.com/search/databases/newsearch.asp

scirus http://www.scirus.com/

New Internet Directory

ZAESY.com - Web Directory: looks unique and worth a try http://www.zaesy.com/

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