From general trade to highly specialized, find the Bowker reference directories you’ll reach for time and again for the most authoritative title information. Bowker’s printed directories have been the staple for title information for over a hundred years. By offering these essential industry tools, Bowker supports the information needs of every type of publisher, retailer, and librarian, along with their customers and patrons.

Every day, industries as diverse as Medicine, Law, and Information Technology -- among others -- produce a wealth of publications that address the very specific needs of their respective fields. Every year, Bowker carefully compiles and updates information about these publications, and puts it into the hands of the professionals and individuals who need it the most.

BOOK-RELATED:

For more than fifty years, Books In Print® has served the library and book trade communities as the definitive bibliographic resource, and currently features more than 1,879,000 active titles and over 2,226,000 active ISBNs, providing unparalleled coverage of the full range of books currently published or distributed in the United States.

Children's Books In Print® (produced from Books In Print) is a vital resource for any librarian with patrons who are young readers -- a two-volume index of more than 250,000 books, 13,000 United States publishers, 243,000 contributors, and nearly 75,000 contributor cross-references.

New publications, such as The Bowker Buyer’s Guide™ and Bowker’s Guide to Characters in Fiction™, specifically address the book trade's current need to offer premium customer service. Information is served up in easier-to digest formats, providing greater usefulness than ever before.

SERIALS-RELATED:

An essential reference tool for any serials librarian, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory™ is overflowing with the latest international bibliographic information on journals, magazines and newspapers. With over 178,600 regularly and irregularly issued serials classified under 897 subject headings, Ulrich’s is the most comprehensive directory available worldwide.

Magazines for Libraries™ provides you with more than 6,850 full-text reviews and recommendations from nearly 200 subject specialists, giving you essential information, useful statistics, and comparative data to help you support your collection decisions.

FORMAT-SPECIFIC:

If you are building or managing a large-print book or serial collection, then Bowker’s The Complete Directory of Large Print Books and Serials™ is the single most important resource you could own, with information on over 22,500 titles, including 3,600 new titles this year.

With the increasing popularity of audiobooks, Books Out Loud: Bowker's Guide to Audiobooks™ is now, more than ever, a must-have collection development and reference tool for your library or bookstore, with information on over 115,000 titles by more than 80,000 authors

As an unparalleled reference resource, selection guide, and acquisitions tool, Bowker's Complete Video Directory™ is an indispensable cornerstone of any video collection, with more than 250,000 titles -- including a wide variety of genres and formats -- in four theme-specific volumes.

The Software Encyclopedia™ is a comprehensive, easy-to-navigate guide filled with detailed information on micro-computer software, in which listings of over 40,100 software programs from 3,845 publishers and distributors are fully annotated to facilitate research and acquisition.

INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC:

With research at the top of any legal professional's "to-do" list, no legal library should be without Law Books & Serials in Print™ -- an easy-to-use source for current legal books, serials, and multimedia publications, which includes over 57,000 entries, including non-print material and serials entries.

Medical and Health Care Books and Serials In Print™ will help you keep track of rapidly changing health care book and serial developments with its convenient, targeted access, and listings for more than 95,000 books, fully cross-referenced to help you cover the full range of biomedical and health sciences.

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