Books In Print

Books In Print (BIP), a FirstSearch database, is now available online to UB faculty, staff, and students. BIP is updated weekly and has over 1.8 million records of in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American publishers. Entries include fiction and non-fiction books on all topics.

No more looking through heavy volumes to find if a book is in print. You just need to check the Online Resources page of BISON II (http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/). Under "References Sources" of the Online Resources page, choose "Books in Print." You will come to a preliminary BIP help screen that includes basic search strategies. Click on "Connect to FirstSearch" and you will see a FirstSearch help screen with tips for navigating the Web site and tips for printing and downloading. To connect to FirstSearch, click on "Start FirstSearch." You will be given a choice of the database areas available to the UB community. Choose "All Areas." Click on "BooksInPrint ....R.R. Bowker's Books In Print" and then "Select Database" to search the BIP database.

The Books In Print database offers searching in a variety of ways, including by subject, author, title, publisher, place of publication, series, ISBN and even target audience. In addition, you can limit your search by language or year. Books identified through BIP and not listed in the UB Libraries Catalog can be obtained through interlibrary loan or you can suggest that the UB Libraries obtain a copy of the book. Both of these services are found on BISON II (http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/forms/).

For questions concerning the Books In Print database, contact Sue Neumeister, (neumeist@acsu.buffalo.edu), Central Technical Services, 645-2305. For assistance connecting to the World Wide Web via UB computer accounts, contact the ASCIT Help Desk at 645-3542.

-Sue Neumeister and Lori Widzinski, University Libraries