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What kind of resources can be added to this list? Everything ranging frompeer review journals to works of fiction. Have a look at the contents overview and you'll get a good idea. Basically: anything that can be used as a source for Wikipedia.
Good access to around 50,000 electronic books and many peer-reviewed journals. Also live near to the world's largest document supply centre at the British Library. --Ian Pitchford18:00, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have access to theVatican Film Library here in St.Louis Missouri. It has microfilmed records of most of the works from the Vatican Library (the only such collection outside of the Vatican itself). --Elonka20:42, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have circulating access to essentially any public or academic library in the state of Minnesota in the United States. I can circulate books directly as a patron of the state flagship university library system and of the largest metropolitan public library system, and the efficient statewide interlibrary loan system gives me access to most other books in Minnesota. --WeijiBaikeBianji (talk,how I edit)02:43, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
A large (150-200 books) private library (print) on the subjectvoyages of discovery. (Especially interestingRaymond John Howgego: Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 (2003).) -Andre Engels
I havea small library of sources related toShakespeare (historical and biographical, the plays and poems) and a few on Shakespeare's contemporary peers (e.g.Kit Marlow) or Shakespeare's later biographers (e.g.Malone). I don't always have a lot of time for the 'pedia, so may not have the quickest turnaround, but feel free to ping me if you need to check anything in any of these works. --Xover (talk)14:31, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
A library of 4000 mostly non fiction books. 400 on history, mostly ancient. 700 on Esoteric topics. 300 on religion, mostly paganism. 200 on philosophy, 700 on science fiction, especially golden age, 200 on psychology, 100 on computing. 50 dictionaries. A lot of rare volumes. Feel free tocontact me
Personal library covering (mostly British) architecture, railways, policing, civil engineering, bits of military history, and some other topics. SeeUser:HJ Mitchell/Library for an incomplete list.
Private library (2,300 books). I'm happy to scan within copyright restrictions, and so long as there are not too many requests! SeeUser:Martin of Sheffield/Library for the top level catalogue.
Small personal library of Australian and New Zealand transport related books and ancient history museum exhibition catalogues, seeUser:Fork99/Library.
Small libary of various plant books, and other textbooks. Also have seashell and plant collection that I can do images of on request. Wait times may be long due to the fact that some older books are fragile.User talk:JonTheSucculentDude
The complete set of books, with 10 supplements. Many entries are somewhat outdated, but this is still useful for now-obscure people who have not attracted the attention of modern writers. —KevinMyers20:51, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The Usborne Internet linked Encyclopaedia of World HistoryThomas888b (talk)
Groliers'The Book of History: A History of All Nations, A general reference work on World History until the time of its' publication. (pub. 1921) (Deyyaz)
Coleman, Loren and Jerome Clark,Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Ness Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature, Simon & Schuster, 1999. (Deyyaz)
Stout, Zaylore (2020).Our Gay History in Fifty States. Wise Ink.ISBN978-1-63489-257-5. A general reference featuring LGBTQ+ individuals and history from all the US states. (paul2520)
Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, by Joan Corominas and José Antonio Pascual, Editorial Gredos, 1987,ISBN84-249-1362-0. Spanish etymology.Error
Dicţionarul Etimologic al Limbii Române, by Alexandru Ciorănescu, Editura Saeculum I.O., Bucharest, 2005,ISBN973-9399-86-X. Romanian etymology.Error
Slanguage: A dictionary of Irish slang, new and expanded edition, Bernard Shar, Gill & Macmillan Ltd., 2003,ISBN0-7171-3474-1.Hiberno-English slang.Error
As a librarian, I have access to the last year of most major mainstream periodicals that arenot newspapers. (The Nation,National Review, etc.). --badlydrawnjefftalk16:56, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Access to the following databases: ProQuest, EBSCOhost, OCLC Firstsearch, CSA, SLED (database for Alaskans), JSTOR, and National Center for Biotechnology Information (Biomedical textbooks).l'aquatique ||talk09:58, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have obtained a copy of this 412-page book:The Maryland Newspaper Project (1991),A Guide To Newspapers And Newspaper Holdings In Maryland (First ed.), Baltimore, Maryland: Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Library Development and Services. On p. ii, it says "This guide is not copyright. Users are free to reproduce part or all of it as they wish.", so I'm happy to share it freely. I already have scans of the front and back matter, which I'll upload soon, once I figure out the best way of doing so (Advice is welcome!), and I'm happy to scan and add additional pages for any requested entries. It has various metadata for all US newspapers with permanent holdings in any Maryland public library/archive, the list of which, including contact information, is part of the front matter. The information it has should also be in OCLC WorldCat, but if you want an authoritative source with known provenance, for example, this might be useful.Solomon Ucko (talk)21:06, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Archives to November 2007 as part of a print subscription.Hoshie
Transactions of theNewcomen Society & The International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Access until January 2012. Would prefer to be told the article title and/or author as the database is not particularly well organised for pulling content otherwise. -Sitush (talk)00:54, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
SPH articles published in the 1990s are typically locked due to copyright, but can be bypassed by viewing the overall page the article was published.
Articles published by most SPH newspapers after the 1990s (except forTODAY up to 2008) are locked behind copyright. The only way to access them would be to go to alibrary in Singapore.
News articles published by SPH newspapers will typically be on NewspaperSG 25 years after they were published. For third-party newspapers, it will be 70 years after they were published.
CNKI, a Chinese-language peer-reviewed journal database based in Mainland China (some papers coupled with English abstract), andWiseNews, a Chinese-language newspaper archive which included newspaper articles from the Greater China and even Malaysia and Singapore, are available through multimedia stations inpublic libraries in Hong Kong. Having an account there enables me to access to these resources. For more enquiries, feel free to ask me. --Spring Roll Conan(Talk ·Contributions )08:02, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Invitation to Combinatorial Topology, Dover ed., Maurice Fréchet & Ky Fan, 2003 (Smári)
The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics, 1989, edited by John Daintith, R. D. Nelson.ISBN0-14-051119-9. Around 2000 definitions of mathematical terms, plus around 200 short biographies of mathematicians.(A bit iffy)
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Mathematics (4 vols) (Rich Farmbrough)
Collier, Leslie; Balows, Albert; Sussman, Max (1998)Topley and Wilson's Microbiology and Microbial Infections ninth edition, Volume 1,Virology, volume editors: Mahy, Brian and Collier, Leslie. Arnold.ISBN0340663162GrahamColmTalk
Dimmock, N.J; Easton, Andrew J; Leppard, Keith (2007)Introduction to Modern Virology sixth edition, Blackwell Publishing,ISBN1405136456GrahamColmTalk
Delves, P.J., Martin, S. J., Burton, D. R. and Roit I.M.Roitt's Essential Immunology (11th edition), Blackwell Publishing, 2006,ISBN978-1-4051-3603-7.GrahamColmTalk
Ernst J. D. and Stendahl O., (editors),Phagocytosis of Bacteria and Bacterial Pathogenicity, Cambridge University Press, 2006,ISBN0-521-84569-6WebsiteGrahamColmTalk
TheNIHR Journals Library provides open access to peer-reviewed reports of publicly funded health research. Fully searchable, including negative and neutral findings, and considerable research detail.
Paoletti R., Notario A. and Ricevuti G., (editors),Phagocytes: Biology, Physiology, Pathology, and Pharmacotherapeutics, The New York Academy of Sciences, 1997,ISBN1-57331-102-2.GrahamColmTalk
Robinson J.P. and Babcock G. F., (editors),Phagocyte Function —A guide for research and clinical evaluation, Wiley–Liss, 1998,ISBN0471123641GrahamColmTalk
A growing collection of modern books on game design, collaborative motivation and engagement, web-coding, online community-organizing, user experience design and research, and library sciences/digital humanitites:User:Ocaasi/RXOcaasit| c14:08, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Cook, C., Creyke, R., Geddes, R., Holloway, I.,Laying Down the Law: The Foundation of legal reasoning, research and writing in Australia (Fourth Edition), Butterworths, Melbourne, 1996,ISBN0-409-30952-4 (User:Sarah)
Hughes, R.A.; Leane, G.W.G.;Australian Legal Institutions, Law & Tax Asia Pacific, 1997,ISBN0 86453 006 4(User:Sarah)
Foss, Edward (1870).A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England: From the Conquest to the Present Time 1066 - 1870. owned byUser:Ironholds (User:Ironholds)
Foss, Edward (1865).Tabulae Curiales: or, Tables of the Superior Courts of Westminster Hall, Showing the Judges who sat there from 1066 to 1864. (User:Ironholds)
Turner, Ralph (1994).Judges, Administrators and the Common Law in Angevin England. owned by (User:Narson)
Gardner, Martin R.; Singer, Richard G. (2006).Crimes and Punishment: Cases, Materials, and Readings in Criminal Law (4th ed.).LexisNexis.ISBN9780820562063. (User:Thibbs)
Livingston, Michael A. (2003).Taxation: Law, Planning, and Policy. Anderson.ISBN978-0870843334. (including Livingston's "Annual Update Letter" bringing it current to 2008) (User:Thibbs)
Hesiod and Theognis, translated by Dorothea Wender, Penguin Books Ltd. (1973 edition) (includes Hesiod'sTheogony andWorks and Days and Theognis'Elegies)Paul August
Ancient Iraq, Georges Roux, 3rd edition (1992)llywrch
-Ancient Egypt:
The Amarna Letters, edited and translated by William L. Moran, 1992.llywrch
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, ed. Ian Shaw, 2000.llywrch
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, Donald B. Redford, 2001. - plus over 100 other titles on EgyptUser:Morgan Leigh
Reliefs and Inscriptions at Luxor Temple, Volume 1: The Festival Procession of Opet in the Colonnade Hall (Oriental Institute Publications Number 112), 1994. - plus over 100 other titles on EgyptUser:Morgan Leigh
The Temple in Man: Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man, René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz, 1998 - - plus over 100 other titles on EgyptUser:Morgan Leigh
Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, ed. Charles Plummer and John Earle (1952 re-issue)llywrch
Venerabilis Baedae Historiam Eccleiasticam Gentis Anglorum, Historiam Abbatum Epistolam ad Ecgberctum, una cum Histoia Abbatum Auctore Anonymo ed. Charles Plummer (1975 reprinting)llywrch
-Arab World:
The Muqaddimah,Ibn Khaldun (trans. Franz Rosenthal), 1967 (Danny)
Wills, John E., Jr.Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History, Princeton University Press, 1994. (Deyyaz)
Fischer, Paul (2015).A Kim Jong-Il production: the extraordinary true story of a kidnapped filmmaker, his star actress, and a young dictator's rise to power (1st ed.). New York: Flatiron Books.ISBN978-1-250-05426-5. (User:ArtemisiaGentileschiFan)
McLaughlin, Peter (1980).Ragtime Soldiers: the Rhodesian Experience in the First World War. Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe.ISBN0-86920-232-4. (Cliftonian)
Geisler, Norman L. (1998).Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics. Baker Books.ISBN0-8010-2151-0.Irmgard
Reid, Daniel C., ed. (2004).The IVP Dictionary of the New Testament: A One-Volume Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship. Intervarsity Press.ISBN0-8308-1787-5.Irmgard
Pelikan, Jaroslav (1989).The Christian Tradition. A History of the Development of Doctrine, 5 volumes. University of Chicago Press.ISBN0-226-65371-4.Irmgard
Lindberg, Carter (1996).The European Reformations. Blackwell Publishers.ISBN1-55786-575-2.Irmgard
Latourette, Kenneth Scott (1953).A History of Christianity. Hendrickson Publishers.ISBN1-56563-328-8.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)Irmgard
Sheldon, Henry C. (1894).History of the Christian church. T.Y. Crowell & Co.ASINB0006DLAW8.Irmgard
Schaff, Philipp (1858–1910).History of the Christian Church, 8 Volumes. Hendrickson Publishers.ISBN1-56563-196-X.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)Irmgard
Mead, Frank; Samuel S. Hill; Craig D. Atwood (2005).Handbook of Denominations in the United States (12th ed.). Nashville Tenn.: Abingdon Press.ISBN0-687-05784-1.Hoshie
Psychology (fourth edition), Peter Gray, 2001 (Neutralitytalk)
Coon, Dennis,Psychology Exploration and Application, West Publishing Company, St Paul,ISBN0-314-93167-8 (User:Sarah)
Oates, Wayne E.,The Psychology of Religion, Word Books, Waco, Texas, (User:Sarah)
Traub, Stuart H.; Little, Craig B.;Theories of Deviance (Fifth Edition), F.E.Peacock Publishers, Inc., Illinois, 1999,ISBN0-87581-419-0 (User:Sarah)
Westen, Drew,Psychology Brain Behaviour and Culture (Third Edition), John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2002,ISBN0-471-41597-9 (User:Sarah)
Burton, Lorelle j.,Writing Essays and Research Reports in Psychology, John Wiley & Sons, Milton, 2002,ISBN0-470-80069-0 (User:Sarah)
Huss, Matthew T. "Forensic psychology : research, clinical practice, and applications (Second Edition)" Creighton University, 2014, ISBN 978-1-118-55413-5 --Carrierudd (talk)05:31, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Baylis, John, Smith, Steve,The Globalization of World Politics (3r Edition), Oxford University Press, New York, 2005,ISBN0-19-927118-6(User:Sarah)
Lovell, D., McAllister, I., Maley, W., Kukathas, C.The Australian Political System (Second edition), Longman, South Melbourne, 1998,ISBN0-582-81027-2(User:Sarah)
Maddox, Graham,Australian Democracy in Theory and Practice (Fourth Edition), Pearson, Sydney, New South Wales, 2000,ISBN0733904106 (User:Sarah)
Colas, Dominique.Civil Society and Fanaticism: Conjoined Histories, trans. by Amy Jacobs, Stanford University Press, 1997. (Deyyaz)
The Federalist Papers, eds. Charles R. Kesler and Clinton Rossiter, Signet Classic, 1999. (Deyyaz)
The making of the Dorset landscape, Taylor, Christopher, 1970. London: Hodder & Stoughton. (Joe D(t))
The Geology of the Country around Weymouth, Swanage, Corfe & Lulworth, Arkell, W.J., 1978. London: Geological Survey of Great Britain, HMSO. (Joe D(t))
A Geological Guide to the Dorset Coast, Davies, G.M., 1956. London: A & C Black. (Joe D(t) 2nd ed)
Geology Explained in Dorset, Perkins, John W., 1977. London: David & Charles. (Joe D(t))
Poole Bay and the Purbeck, 300BC-1660AD, Cochrane, C., 1969. Dorchester: Longman. (Joe D(t))
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, Joel Whitburn, 2000 (7th ed.) (Bumm13)
The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles 14 edition. Chart positions and dates for all singles which entered the top 75 since the fifties. --bodnotbod 22:43, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980.ISBN1561591742 (User:Antandrus)
Allan W. Atlas,Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400–1600. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1998.ISBN0-393-97169-4 (User:Antandrus)
Howard Mayer Brown,Music in the Renaissance. Prentice Hall History of Music Series. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976.ISBN0-13-608497-4 (User:Antandrus)
The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, ed. Don Randel. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1986.ISBN0674615255 (User:Antandrus)
Eric Guilder and June G. Port.The Dictionary of Composers and their Music. New York, Ballantine Books, 1978.ISBN0345280415 (User:Antandrus)
The Concise Edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th ed. Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. New York, Schirmer Books, 1993.ISBN002872416X (User:Antandrus)
Donald Jay Grout,A Short History of Opera. New York, Columbia University Press, 1965.ISBN0231024223 (User:Antandrus)
Walter H. Kemp,Burgundian Court Song in the Time of Binchois: The Anonymous Chansons of El Escorial, MS V.III.24. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1990. (User:Antandrus)
David Crook,Orlando di Lasso's Imitation Magnificats for Counter-Reformation Munich. Princeton, Princeton University Press. 1994.ISBN0-692-03614-4{{isbn}}: Checkisbn value: checksum (help) (User:Antandrus)
Blanche Gangwere,Music History During the Renaissance Period, 1520–1550. Westport, Connecticut, Praeger Publishers. 2004. (User:Antandrus)
Author, "Article", inProceedings of the International Josquin Symposium. Utrecht, Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis. 1986.ISBN90-6375-148-6 (User:Antandrus)
Author, "Article", in Robert Sherr, ed.,The Josquin Companion. Oxford University Press, 1999.ISBN0-19-816335-5 (User:Antandrus)
Jeffrey Dean: "Okeghem's valediction? the meaning of 'Intemerata Dei mater'", inJohannes Ockeghem: Actes du XLe Colloque international d'études humanistes. Éditions Klincksieck, 1998.ISBN2-252-03214-6 (User:Antandrus)
Honey Meconi,Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2003.ISBN0-19-816554-4 (User:Antandrus)
F. Alberto Gallo, tr. Karen Eales,Music of the Middle Ages (II). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1977 (original Italian edition) and 1985 (English).ISBN0-521-28483-X (User:Antandrus)
Sydney Robinson Charles,A Handbook of Music and Music Literature in Sets and Series. Schirmer Books, New York, 1972. No ISBN. (User:Antandrus)
Andrew Kirkman,The Three-Voice Mass in the Later Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Style, Distribution and Case Studies. New York and London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995.ISBN0-8153-1871-5 (User:Antandrus)
Author, "Article", in Honey Meconi, ed.,Early Musical Borrowing. New York and London, Routledge. 2004.ISBN0-8153-3521-0 (User:Antandrus)
Jeffery Lee Brothers,Hot Hits: Adult Contemporary Charts 1978-2001. 1st Book Library 2003.ISBN1-4107-3294-0 Every charting single on theCCM Magazine AC chart from 1978 to 2001 as well as all #1 singles on theCCM Magazine CHR chart. (User:Toa Nidhiki05)
Joel Whitburn,Pop Annual, 1955–2011 (8th ed., Hardcover). Record Research Inc., 2012.ISBN0-89820-193-4. Useful if anyone has a question about how many weeks a single spent in the top 10 of theBillboard Hot 100 chart, particularly applicable to the articles in "Category:Lists of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles" through the year 2011. (User:MPFitz1968)
These web sites may be repositories of non-authoritative or self-published material or research. Just because a citation is from one of these web sites does not make it non-citable, but probably means it warrants slightly more careful investigation to make sure it is credible. Perhaps being on this list might be equated to a "go slow" sign.
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