Subject guide

Book and Digital Media Studies

Overview of databases, journals and reference works for research in Book and Digital Media Studies

Location

The collection Book and Digital Media Studies is for the most part located in the University Library: in the closed stacks, the open stacks and in the reading rooms. To locate individual titles, please refer to the Catalogue.

Reference collection

The first floor of the University Library houses a collection of reference works, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and primary works. These can not be borrowed, however it is possible to make copies or scans.

The reference collection is arranged by Library of Congress Classification (LCC). Titles in the area of Book and Digital Media Studies are mostly placed in category Z in study room 8:

Z: Book (general), writing, paleography, book industries and trade, libraries, bibliography

Printed journals

Current volumes of journals which are not published online are placed in the journal cabinet in study room 8. Older volumes are placed in the closed stacks and can be requested through the Catalogue.

Databases Book and Digital Media Studies

Book History

Finding manuscripts

Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts: The SDBM continuously aggregates and updates observations of pre-modern manuscripts drawn from over 14,000 auction and sales catalogs, inventories, catalogs from institutional and private collections, and other sources that document the sales and locations of these books from around the world.

Finding articles

Fachinformationdienst Buch- Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft (FID): zeer actuele catalogus met meer dan 3 miljoen records. De database onttrekt zijn titels aan een dertigtal bronnen, zoals de British Library Catalogue, Wolfenbütteler Bibliographie zur Geschichte des Buchwesens en Gallica (Bibliotheque Nationale de France). Bevat links naar de open access publicaties.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

For older articles

Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries (1973-2006)

Bibliologia : an international journal of bibliography, library science, history of typography and the book, Special Collections Open Stack Z4 .B542 , 2006-2015

Web resources

Bibliopolis: geschiedenis van het gedrukte boek in Nederland

Atlas of early printing: https://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/

Memory of paper

Reference Works

Manuscripts

Fragmentarium: laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments: enables libraries, collectors, researchers and students to publish images of medieval manuscript fragments, allowing them to catalogue, describe, transcribe, assemble and re-use them.

Manuscriptorium: Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage: enables ready access to concentrated information on historical resources via sophisticated search tools. The digital library therefore aggregates documents from many renowned institutions, extending beyond the countries of the European Union.

Bibliothèque Virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux

Rare Books: A digital library of reference works: allows users to search across and within the full text of over 100 rare book bibliographies, library catalogs and sales catalogs.

Index Possessorum Incunabulorum: find personal and corporate owners of incunabula

Material Evidence in Incunabula: database specifically designed to record and search the material evidence (or copy specific, post-production evidence and provenance information) of 15th-century printed books: ownership, decoration, binding, manuscript annotations, stamps, prices, etc. MEI is linked to the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC), provided by the British Library

Heritage of the Printed Book Database: a steadily growing collection of files of catalogue records from major European and North American research libraries covering items of European printing of the hand-press period (c.1455-c.1830

Boekbinden

Julia Miller, Books will speak plain: a handbook for identifying and describing historical bindings, The Legacy Press 2010

Janos Szirmai, The archaeology of medieval bookbinding, Ashgate 1999

Language of bindings: this thesaurus intends to to provide a consistent and agreed terminology to be used by anybody working with historic books.

Kneep en binding: describes the terminology of medieval bookbindings

Typografie

Typolexikon.de: ein populärwissenschaftliches worterbuch

Mailing lists

Sharp-L: maintained by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

Library Sciences

The European Library: portal for easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe

For older literature: