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World Wide Web Virtual Library: Book and Library Sciences

• Libraries and scientific research organisations
• Catalogues
• Book History
• Special Topics
• Repositories of digital special collections

Links to libraries and scientific research organisations and book history websites.

Libraries and scientific research organisations in the Netherlands
www0.kb.nl/bibliotheekgids/nederland-bibl.html
Links to libraries and associated organisations in the Netherlands.

Bibliotheek.startpagina.nl
bibliotheek.startpagina.nl
Links to libraries and associated organisations in the Netherlands.

Universiteiten.startpagina.nl
universiteiten.startpagina.nl
Links to Dutch universities.

Bijzondere Collecties in bibliotheken
www.bibliopolis.nl [chapter/hoofdstuk: Collecties]
A concise digital version ofthe printed Repertorium Speciale Collecties [in the Netherlands](1997).

The European Library
www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.htm
The European Library webservice is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe.

Repository of primary sources (University of Idaho Library)
www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources.

Catalogues

PiCarta
www.picarta.nl
PiCarta offers entry to various materials like books, periodicals, articles, abstracts, letters, sheet music, multimedia, full-text files and internet services. The descriptions in PiCarta are derived from a number of databases. Selections can be made via 'search options' on PiCarta's home page. Among other sources, PiCarta consists of:
- The Netherlands Central Catalogue (NCC): bibliographical descriptions and locations of ca. ten million books and 460.000 periodicals in more than 400 libraries in the Netherlands
- Online Contents: contents of ca. 12.000 periodicals
- Catalogus Epistularum Neerlandicarum: 180.000 abstracts and descriptions of ca. 800.000 letters from 1600 til today
- NetFirst: internet sources, selected by OCLC
To use this catalogue outsite the institute, an ILL deposit account is required.

Short-Title Catalogue, Netherlands (STCN)
picarta.pica.nl
The STCN is the retrospective national Dutch bibliography for the period 1540-1800, including concise descriptions of Dutch incunabulae.
To use this catalogue outsite the institute, an ILL deposit account is required.

Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen (STCV)
www.stcv.be/eng/frame.html
The Short Title Catalogue Flanders (STCV) is an online bibliography of books printed in Flanders (the northern part of Belgium, Brussels included) from 1601 on to 1700.

Searching for rare books
www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/drukkers.htm
This page contains links to a number of large sites with antiquarian books resources, collected under the headings General, Libraries (homepages), Library OPACs, Antiquarian bookshops (general) and Antiquarian book search engines.

Rarebooks.info
rarebooks.info
A website that gives entry to the world's largest bibliography of rare books on the internet.

NetUit
netuit.kb.nl
NetUit, weeklist of the Dutch Bibliography, publishes weekly the new publications of Dutch publishers.
In NetUit, de weeklijst van de Nederlandse Bibliografie, worden wekelijks nieuwe publicaties van Nederlandse uitgevers gepubliceerd.

Book History

Book History Online
www.kb.nl/bho
International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries Contains ca. 25.000 descriptions of monographs and articles from more than 30 countries, published after 1989. BHO is based on the yearly published ABHB, Annual Bibliography of the History of the printed Book and Libraries.

Bibliopolis
www.bibliopolis.nl
Bibliopolis is the electronic national history of the printed book in the Netherlands. It is a scientific, interactive information system which enables the researcher to get an insight into the state of Dutch book history research and gives entry to relevant documentation.

Boekhistorische publicaties
www.bibliopolis.nl [chapter/hoofdstuk: studies]
207 book historic publications in digital form.

Digital Books about Books
www.oakknoll.com/digitalbooks.php
Digital versions of books on bibliography, bookbinding, book collecting, book design, book Illustration, bookplates, book selling, publishing, and typography.

A.C. Kruseman, Bouwstoffen voor een geschiedenis van den Nederlandschen boekhandel gedurende de halve eeuw 1830-1880
www.bibliopolis.nl [chapter/hoofdstuk: studies]
A digital version of A.C. Kruseman, Bouwstoffen voor een geschiedenis van den Nederlandschen boekhandel gedurende de halve eeuw 1830-1880.

Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
www.dbnl.org
Website about the Dutch language and literature, with literary texts, secundary literature, biographies, portraits, and hyperlinks.

Museum Meermanno
www.meermanno.nl Museum Meermanno is dedicated to the history of the written and printed book. Form and book design are a central aspect.

Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging
nbv.kb.nl/index.html
The NVB is the Dutch national association dedicated to book history.

Leiden Centre for the Book
www.bookstudies.leidenuniv.nl
Education and research in the field of book history at Leiden University.

Boekwetenschap en handschriftenkunde
cf.hum.uva.nl/bookmaster
Education and research in the field of book history at Amsterdam University.

The American Printing History Association
www.printinghistory.org
The American Printing History Association encourages the study of printing history and its related arts. APHA is especially, but by no means exclusively, interested in American printing history.

CERL thesaurus
www.cerl.org/Thesaurus/thesaurus.htm
The CERL Thesaurus file contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, and personal names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century.

Special Topics

Dutchess (Dutch Electronic Subject Service)
www.kb.nl/dutchess
A Dutch national subject gateway aimed at the academic community. Of particular interest are the categories 'Documentary information' (history of the book), and 'General works' (bibliographies, biographical dictionaries, general source material).

Catalogus Epistularum Neerlandicarum
www.picarta.nl
180.000 abstracts and descriptions of ca. 800.000 letters from 1600 til today, available via PiCarta.

Ceneton (Census Nederlands Toneel)
www.let.leidenuniv.nl/dutch/ceneton/index.html Description of all manuscripts and editions of Dutch drama until 1803, with indexes on title, author and printer. Contains information about 10.650 Dutch drama texts, including 805 titles from the Academy Library. Contains almost 200 complete drama texts online.

Online Contents
www.picarta.nl
Contents of ca. 12.000 periodicals, available via PiCarta.

Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
www.dbnl.org
Website about the Dutch language and literature, with literary texts, secundary literature, biographies, portraits, and hyperlinks.

Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta (BNM)
bnm.leidenuniv.nl
The national expertise centre Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta (BNM) collects and presents information about Dutch mediaeval manuscripts.

Manuscripta Mediaevalia
www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de
Manuscripta Mediaevalia is a project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft containing information about more than 60.000 mediaeval manuscripts in the German speaking regions. The repository contains 89 digital manuscripts and 203 digital manuscript catalogues.

Middeleeuwse Verluchte Handschriften
www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/index_nl.html A database and website with information and 8000 illustrations from the ca. 500 illuminated mediaeval manuscripts from the collections of the Royal Library and the Museum Meermanno.

Oddens Bookmarks
oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.php
More than 22.000 links about maps and mapping on the internet.

Lijst van drukkers bij de Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht
drukkers.library.uu.nl
Name list of Printers in the Utrecht University Library containing names of printers of whom publications are available at the Utrecht University Library.

De levensbeschryvingen van Nederlandsche konstschilders en konstschilderessen
www.library.uu.nl/digiboeken/weyerman/weyerman.html
Biographies and portraits of Dutch painters. Digital edition of Jacob Campo Weyerman, De levensbeschryvingen van Nederlandsche konstschilders en konstschilderessen (1729-1769).

Witsen Geysbeek
www.dbnl.org/tekst/wits004biog00
P.G. Witsen Geysbeek, Biographic anthological and critical dictionary of Dutch poets, 1821-1827.

A.J. van der Aa, Het Aardrijkskundig woordenboek der Nederlanden (1839-1851)
www.tresoar.nl/vanderaa/index.html
Dutch geographical dictionary, with concise historical information on almost every place.

Repositories of digital special collections

Boekhistorische publicaties
www.bibliopolis.nl [chapter/hoofdstuk: studies]
A repository of 207 book historic publications in digital form.

Digital Books about Books
www.oakknoll.com/digitalbooks.php
Digital versions of books on bibliography, bookbinding, book collecting, book design, book Illustration, bookplates, book selling, publishing, and typography.

Project Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.org
A repository of 17.000 digital books in the (U.S.) public domain.

Gallica
gallica.bnf.fr
Digital library of the Bibliothéque Nationale de France.

Digitale Bijzondere Collecties, Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht
digbijzcoll.library.uu.nl/index.php?lang=en
Repertory of ca. 1000 digital works from the Special Collections of Utrecht University Library.

Special Collections of Wageningen UR Library
library.wur.nl/speccol
Repository of digital works from the Special Collections of Wageningen UR Library.

Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
www.dbnl.org
Website about the Dutch language and literature, with literary texts, secundary literature, biographies, portraits, and hyperlinks.

Project Laurens Jansz. Coster
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www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/index_nl.html
A database and website with information and 8000 illustrations from the ca. 500 illuminated mediaeval manuscripts from the collections of the Royal Library and the Museum Meermanno.

Manuscripta Mediaevalia
www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de Manuscripta Mediaevalia is a project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft containing information about more than 60.000 mediaeval manuscripts in the German speaking regions. The repository contains 89 digital manuscripts and 203 digital manuscript catalogues.