Association of Authors' Agencies    

Bookcatcher

Website offering free book publicity for book writers and book publishers

Book Flash     

Book Marketing Services

Book People   

Publishing business website

Book Trust   

Booktrust is an independent national charity that encourages people of all ages and cultures to discover and enjoy reading.

BRAD     

Essential if you are involved in planning, buying or researching UK media. 13,000 up-to-date listings

Cimtech  

Centre for Information Management and Technology - a UK centre of expertise on all aspects of information, document and content management.

Copyright Clearance Centre  

Rightslink offers all the technology tools that allow your content to be viewed while ensuring that it cannot be copied, saved, captured, printed or otherwise redistributed without your permission.

Council of Science Editors     

The Council of Science Editors (CSE) aims to improve communication in the sciences by educating authors, editors, and publishers.

Crossref   

CrossRef is an independent membership association (currently it has 300 members), founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef operates a cross-publisher citation linking system that enables a researcher to click on a reference citation in a journal on one publisher’s platform and link to the cited article at another publisher’s platform.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. They have built upon the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright. They're a nonprofit. All of their tools are free

Deepend Training     

Training for managers in publishing and information companies.

Digital Content Forum (DCF)     

The DCF brings together trade associations and other membership bodies from across the digital content industries.

Digital Library Forum

Forum managed by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).

The Digital Object Identifier System

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI^®) is a system for identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment. Their recent Handbook (Aug 2003) is available as a pdf. The DOI Registration Agencies are listed here.

dotJournalism   

The dotJournalism website caters for the growing number of journalists working in new media. It has a searchable database of editorial vacancies; a free news service dedicated to online journalism, a jobfinder service; a searchable database of freelancers and a comprehensive set of useful links for journalists.

DPA   

The Data Publishers Association (DPA) is the industry body representing data and directory publishers in the UK.

DTI - Digital Content and Publishing Unit    

Within the DTI, the Digital Content and Publishing Unit is the first contact for books, newspapers, magazines, journals, directories, business information companies, education content publishers, digital content, computer games and Internet businesses

DTI - Publishing Overview  

According to the DTI, the UK has the second largest publishing industry in Europe. The sector has a turnover of at least £18.4 billion, with its 8000+ companies employing around 164,000 people.

E-consultancy.com    

Link to the publishing section of E-consultancy.com. Contains reports, research, statistics, news, reviews, suppliers and events.

The Electric Editors

Comprehensive collection of resources for editors.

Electronic Publishing Innovation Centre

The Electronic publishing Innovation Centre (EPICentre) is a research organisation set up to investigate all areas of electronic publishing - from the technical aspects and languages of document engineering right through to usability and usage studies of journals, e-books and web sites.

European Booksellers Federation   

EUSIDIC   

European Association of Information Services.

Global Book Network

A world wide partnership between international freight forwarders - all the companies are involved with the publishing and bookselling business.

Google Directory - Bibliographic Utilities

Bibliography and CitationTools

Institute of Publishing   

The Institute of Publishing has been established for the benefit of individuals in the publishing industry.

ISBN agency    

The UK ISBN Agency is responsible for assigning ISBN Publisher Prefixes to publishers based in the UK or Republic of Ireland.

International Digital Publishing Forum

The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) is a trade and standards organization dedicated to the development and promotion of electronic publishing.

The work of the IDPF aims to foster and promote the development of electronic publishing applications and products that will benefit creators of content, makers of reading systems and consumers.  

JFL    

JFL is a specialist search and selection consultancy for the communications sector – working primarily in PR, marketing and publishing.

Libri

Libri is a UK charity with a mission is to encourage a vibrant and relevant public library network, focused on its prime responsibility of providing books the public with a good choice of books for reading and reference.

Manuscriptediting   

Meettheauthor.co.uk

Meet the Author UK - you can see authors describing and introducing their books in their own words on video clips.

Nielsen BookData   

Nielsen Bookdata is a provider of bibliographic data. The company is wholly owned by VNU.

Nielsen Bookscan   

Nielsen BookScan is the international sales data monitoring and analysis service for the English-language book industry worldwide.

Newspaper Association of America   

NAA is a nonprofit organization representing the $55 billion newspaper industry. NAA members account for nearly 90 percent of the daily circulation in the United States and a wide range of nondaily U.S. newspapers.

PIRA International    

PIRA is a commercial consultancy business that specialises in the packaging, paper, printing and publishing industries.

Professional/Scholarly Publishing    
(Association of American Publishers)

Members of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) publish, in print and electronic form, the vast majority of materials produced and used by scholars and professionals in science, medicine, technology, business, law, and the humanities. Division members produce books, journals, computer software, databases and CD-ROM.

Publishers Newswire  

The purpose of this site is to provide a resource for those who write, sell, and distribute books, ebooks, magazines, publishing software, and those in the book industry — as well as editors, journalists, and people who read books.

Publishers Weekly 

Publishers Weekly, the 131-year-old international news magazine of the $23 billion book industry, reaches every major publisher worldwide. It's the leading publication serving all segments involved in the creation, production, marketing and sale of the written word in book, audio, video and electronic formats.

Publishing and Media Jobs 

Jobs at JobsWord Directory

Seybold Report      

The Seybold Report is devoted to the cross-media tools, technologies and trends shaping print and Internet publishing.

Society of Authors   

The Society of Authors has been serving the interests of professional writers for more than a century. Today it has more than 8,000 members writing in all areas of the profession.

Society of Young Publishers    

The SYP is open to anyone in publishing or a related trade - or who is hoping to be soon.

Train4Publishing  

International training provider for book and journal publishing.

UCL Centre for Publishing 

The UCL Centre for Publishing aspires to lead the world in research, scholarship and teaching of publishing in all media and for all audiences.

Who owns what  

Columbia Journalism Review's online guide to what major media companies own.

      Library of Congress Classification  

The Library of Congress Classification System organises material in libraries

      MESH - Medical Subject Headings      

Medical classifications from the U.S. National Library of Medicine

      OCLC  

OCLC  provide services for libraries. Their Dewey® Decimal Classification System is commonly used in Libraries.

Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®)

The purpose of the UMLS is to aid the development of systems that help health professionals and researchers retrieve and integrate electronic biomedical information from a variety of sources.

UK-Publishing.info   

UK-publishing.info is a website which publishes the findings of the competitiveness analysis and e-commerce impact assessment of the UK publishing media.

These reports and action plans were commissioned by the DTI and the project co-managed by the DTI and UK Publishing Media (UKPM), an alliance of the Newspaper Society (NS), the Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA), The Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) and the Publishers Association (PA).

Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003

The print version has ISBN 0 10 542803 5