Indexes and Bibliographic Sources
Chapter 18
- Business Periodicals Index Description of publication
- Business Periodicals Index Sample page
- Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book of American Business Recommended supplement
- Wall Street Journal Index Description of publication
- Wall Street Journal Index TOC
- Wall Street Journal Index Sample page
- Christian Science Monitor Index Recommended supplement
- Books in Print Description of publication
- Subject Guide To Books In Print TOC
- Books In Print Sample page
- Public Affairs Information Service, Inc Recommended supplement
From this chapter:
For 49 years, Books in Print (BIP) has served the library and book trade communities as the definitive bibliographic resource. A recent edition, covering over 230,354 new book titles, provides coverage of the full range of books currently published or distributed in the United States. This 49th edition of BIP contains 1,265,891 active titles published by 49,000 U.S. publishers. Bound in nine volumes, the set includes four volumes arranged by title and four by author. The ninth volume is devoted to publisher information and includes names and addresses of all publishers mentioned in the author and title volumes. (Amazon.com Inc. offers over 2.5 million book titles for sale over the Internet: www.amazon.com. We're not talking reference works here, but we just thought you'd like to know.)
BIP doesn't list books that are not published or exclusively distributed in the United States or books that are not available to the trade or general public for single or multiple copy purchase. BIP is designed to be easily searchable by both author and title.