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The Australian National University: Earth Sciences Library.

Home / Literature Search / Access to Libraries / Access to selected libraries / Austria

Arbeitsgruppe Bibliotheksautomation (AGBA), ÖSTERREICHISCHER BIBLIOTHEKENVERBUND: Library Catalogues in Austria. Also access to the Austrian Union Library Catalogue. "Österreichischer Verbundkatalog, Gesamtkatalog" (in German).

Home / Literature Search / Access to Libraries / Access to selected libraries / Canada

University of Calgary: Calgary Libraries Automated Virtual Information System. Search the catalogue via WebCat.

Canadian Geoscience Information Centre (CGIC): On-Line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). Telnet; Login: opac

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Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg

Bibliotheks-Verbund Bayern (in German).

Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut, Berlin. Access to IBAS databases (telnet capability required), and DBI Link databases.
In German.

Bibliothek Geowissenschaftlicher Institute an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Go to: OPAC Search "Gast".

Die Deutsche Bibliothek, the German national library: Z39.50-Gateway, OPAC Deutschen Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main. See also here. Access to the joint holdings of Die Deutsche Bibliothek (Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig) from 1990 onwards free of charge.
OPAC of the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main (direct access) The Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) of the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main offers convenient free of charge facilities for searching from 1945 onwards in the Frankfurt holdings up to the present.

! Gateway Bavaria 2000. Parallel search in more then 30 bibliographic databases. Having logged in to the Gateway Bavaria Internet Portal, you will get to the search screen. To select a whole group of databases, just click the selection box left to the group heading. Excellent!

Universitätsbibliothek "Georgius Agricola" der Technischen Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany.

Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. Access via WWW, or via telnet. Choose "Geoscience", number 8.

Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg (sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft): WEBIS. Search for literature (in German). Check Geosciences out here.

Karlsruhe University Library: Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog. Easy access to the holdings of Germanys university libraries. More than 35 millions of books and serials. Allows combined search, e.g. in the British COPAC. Excellent!

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: Bibliotheken der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (in German).

Institute of Geoscience, University of Potsdam: Library of the "Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft". In German (obviously under construction).

Library of the University of Würzburg: Gateway to the OPAC and the databases.

Home / Literature Search / Access to Libraries / Access to selected libraries / Germany / Meta-Indexes Germany

TU-Berlin: Libraries.

Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut (DBI), Zeitschriftendienst (ZD): Search engine. Search for essays, in German.

University of Hannover: Verzeichnis der deutschsprachigen abfragbaren Kataloge und Institutionen In German.

Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (HBZ) in Köln: German Libraries Online. Listed in alphabetical order.

web.de: Bibliotheken. In German.

Home / Literature Search / Access to Libraries / Access to selected libraries / Sweden

ESSEL, Earth Science Sweden Electronic Library: Earth Science Libraries in Sweden - addresses.

Library of the University of Lund, Nordic WAIS/World Wide Web Project: WWW subject tree of WAIS databases, and All WAIS databases sorted by ASCII, with annotations. Very helpful!

Home / Literature Search / Access to Libraries / Access to selected libraries / United Kingdom

National Bibliographic Service, The British Library; Boston Spa, Wetherby, Yorkshire: Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC 97, The British Library) This online catalog contains information on over eight and a half million books and other material as included in some of the British Library's most important catalogs. Normal working hours are Monday to Saturday 0400 to 2400 GMT, Sundays and English Bank Holidays no service.

Access to the British Library via Deutsche Bibliothek - Z39.50 Gateway. Go to: "Europäische OPACS".

Portico. The British Library´s Online Information Server.

The British Geological Survey: Direct library catalog access by telnet. Log in (user name): LIBRARY

NISS (formerly "JANET-OPACS"): OPACs in Britain and Ireland. A directory of library catalogues and services. See also: Higher Education & Research Library Catalogues (OPACs)

Manchester Computing, University of Manchester & Consortium of University Research Libraries: COPAC. COPAC is a new Online Public Access Catalogue, providing unified access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.

Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire: Library Catalogue.

The Natural History Museum, London: (Requires telnet capability, login: libcat).

Home / Literature Search / Access to Libraries / Access to selected libraries / U.S.A.

University of California Santa Cruz Earth and Marine Science Gopher(Gopher)

North Carolina State University Earth Science(Gopher)

Duke University, Durham, NC USA: Duke Libraries Online Catalog. Easy search by author, title, subject heading, keyword(s), etc.

MELVYL, University of California.

New York Public Library: Web-Opac CATNYP (since 1971).

Stanford University: Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections.

Princeton University Observatory. The Astrophysical Sciences WWW server at Princeton.

The Library of Congress, Washington: The Library of Congress is a major information provider on the Internet.

The Library, University of California, Berkeley (Catalog via telnet).

Geology & Geophysics Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

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Peter Scott & Doug Macdonald, University of Saskatchewan Library, Canada: WEBCATS, Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web. Geographic Index. Excellent!

Eric Lease Morgan, North Carolina State University: Online catalogs with "webbed" interfaces.

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Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium: Access to library catalogues in Belgium and abroad.

BookWire: Library Resource Guide.

Represented by the Conference of European National Libraries (CENL), hosted by the British Library: GABRIEL Online Public Access Catalogues, sorted by countries, the National Bibliographies, maintained by Europe´s National Libraries, and access to Online services of Europe´s National Libraries.

St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana: SJCPL´s List of Public Libraries with Internet Services. Public libraries world-wide that are providing internet services through a gopher, World-Wide Web, or telnet server. More than 500 public libraries from around the world!

Rob Kabacoff, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: Inter-Links Internet Access: Library Resources.

LibrarySpot: Libraries Online.

Libweb, Thomas Dowling (from Berkely): Library Servers via WWW. Libweb is currently listing over 1000 libraries in over 45 countries on 6 continents. A WAIS database Libweb Keyword Searching is searchable about locations (usually city, state, and country).

Universitätsbibliothek Siegen, Germany: "Bedeutende Bibliotheken im Internet". (In German).

U.S. Geological Survey Library

YAHOO: Libraries. Unequivocally one of the best indexes. See also: Reference.