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Historical Periodicals Directory. Ed. Eric Boehm, Barbara Pope, Marie Ensign. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1981-86. 5 vol.
SML Reference Z6205 +H573 (LC)
Contents: v.1, USA and Canada; v.2, Europe: West, North, Central, and South; v.3, Europe: East and Southeast; USSR; v.4, Larin America and the West Indies; v. 5, Australia and New Zealand.
Intended as a "comprehensive, authoritative source of accurate, up-to-date information on journals and selected serial publications in the field of history... for all current publications, both scholarly and popular, and those that have ceased publication since 1960." --Introd. Information is presented in a standard format and includes a statement of scope or purpose for each journal. Interdisciplinary journals and those devoted to disciplines other than history are included if at least thirty percent of the articles are historical in content. Vol. 5 includes a title, subject, and geographic index to the full set.(Balay, DA14)

Library of Congress. Periodicals Devision. A check list of foreign newspapers in the Library of Congress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929.
SML Reference Z881 +U5 1929 (LC)
LSF AM3 Un4
Arranged geographically by country of publication, and under each city alphabetically by title of newspaper. Gives for each paper exact statement of Library of Congress files. Includes almost 2,700 titles, published in 79 countries in 21 languages. Title index. (Balay, AE10)

New Serial Titles. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1953- .
SML Stacks Z6945 +N48 (LC)
SML Periodical Reading Room Z6945 +N48 (LC)
Lists periodicals which began publication in 1950 and later, giving place of publication and statement of beginning date (and closing date if pertinent) with record holdings in about 700 U.S. and Canadian libraries. Additional locations are published in each cumulation. (Balay, AD225)

New serial titles 1950-1970: Subject guide. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1975.
SML Reference Z6945 +N42 (LC)

Postwar foreign newspapers; a union list. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1953.
SML Reference Z6945 U5 N44 (LC)
SML Stacks Xa23 U793 +953
Includes Russian but not Latin American newspapers. Alphabetical by country, then by city, with a title index. Frequency and date of establishment are given where known. Reports volume-specific holdings of 76 U.S. libraries. (Balay, AE12)

Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada. Ed. Edna Brown Titus. Third edition. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1965.
SML Reference Z6945 +U53 (LC)
SSL Reference Z6945 +U53 (LC)
Lists more than 156,000 titles, which began publishing before 1950, with holdings in 956 cooperating libraries. Continued for periodicals begun after 1950 by New serial titles (see above). (Balay, AD226)

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Balay = Guide to reference books. Edited by Robert Balay. 11th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996.
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Biography Index (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1946 - .)
SML Reference Z5301 B56 (LC)
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Cumulative index to biographical information in books and magazines. The print volumes cover 1946- present, and the online version goes back to 1984.

Britannica Online
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Global Books In Print (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1948- )
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Index to books in print, forthcoming books, and recently out-of-print books. The current printed volumes are available at the following libraries under the title Books in Print: Engineering and Applied Science, Forestry, Kline, Law, Medical, Music, Social Sciences, and Sterling Memorial Library.

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