Books and Book Catalogues

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Library catalogues

To find library locations or bibliographic details of books:

• University of Adelaide Library Catalogue
• Library catalogues for Australian and overseas libraries
• Worldcat for books held in libraries worldwide
• Libraries Australia for books held in Australian libraries

New books

New books in the Barr Smith Library
Lists books received in the latest week and displayed on the New book shelf in the Library. It is arranged in call number groups e.g. 500s for science, 600s for technology including medicine and biotechnology. This list also appears in the ua.library newsgroup which normally contains the last 3 or 4 weeks of new books. Holds can be placed on books that are on the New book shelf.

Publishers&undefined; catalogues

• Global books in print - the best source of price and publisher of in print books
• Publishers catalogues - Links to a large number of publishers&undefined; catalogues worldwide. Most catalogues can be searched and browsed by subject or author.
• BookWeb -  "...a Book Trade miscellany with some useful links that you might not find elsewhere. Your gateway to the UK and Irish book trade."

For physics publishers see:

• AIP Press
  • Directories and Other Books
  • AIP Press books from Springer-Verlag
• Cambridge University Press
• Elsevier Science
• Oxford University Press
• Springer New York
• International Atomic Energy Agency Publications

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Electronic Books

The Online Books page

The Online Books Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, He is a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. The site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries,